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CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
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32. Ray, James Earl, Who Killed Martin Luther King?, Washington,
D.C., National Press Books, 1992. Ray is the alleged assassin of
MLK and is "confined in River Bend Penitentiary in Nashville,
Tennessee." Summary: Documents strong circumstantial evidence
that the FBI and Memphis Police were responsible for the
assassination of MLK, and that Ray was framed, while "ballistic
evidence and eyewitness accounts vindicate Ray." Evidence was
tampered with, destroyed, and concealed. Official investigations
were used to simply rubber stamp preordained conclusions that
supported the official party line. Judges and witnesses were
threatened, blackmailed, bribed, intimidated, told how to
testify, illegally imprisoned, and murdered. The media was
misused and manipulated by the FBI. The Senate Select Committee
on Assassinations, the Department of Justice, and Judges
knowingly allowed purjured testimony, placed bizarre limitations
on the defendant's rights, lost entire files at convenient times,
allowed violations of court orders to go without punishment, and
rewarded clear violations of the defendant's rights by allowing
them to go without consequences.
Two hours prior to the shooting, Memphis police withdrew the
detail assigned to protect MLK. Minutes after MLK was shot the
murder weapon was found "packed neatly in a box, not something a
killer is likely to do with a murder weapon when fleeing the
scene. Ray was coerced into a guilty plea that was the product of
fraud and deception.
The only supposed eyewitness, Charles Stephens, later recanted
his testimony. Another witness, James McCraw, witnessed
Stephen's condition 2-3 minutes prior to the shooting. Stephens,
a known alcoholic, was so intoxicated that he could not get up,
let alone walk, and certainly not accurately identify a fast
moving target.
Numerous times Ray was told by FBI Agents, police, and
prosecutors that unless he cooperated by giving a confession and
self-incriminating statements, authorities might jail various
members of his family.
Two judges, who had ruled in favor of Ray, mysteriously died of
alleged heart attacks in their chambers while studying papers on
the King murder case and giving due consideration to a real trial
for Ray.
One of the phone numbers "Raoul" had given Ray was listed to a
law enforcement officer. Another was listed to a motel owned by
mobster Carlos Marcello. The man who made the connections
between the Raoul phone numbers and their proper listing, and who
then passed the information to Ray was found dead months later,
allegedly a suicide.
Ray's letters to his lawyer were intercepted, copied, and
forwarded to the prosecutor, as well as to the FBI. This case of
national interest had a bizarre 100-mile limit zone placed on
Ray's legal right to subpoena. Certain documents that were
legally subpoenaed were never produced, nor did the judge ever
address this contempt.
Two judges, in refusing Ray's request for a real trial, refused
to address or refute Ray's arguments on their merit, but, instead
hid behind judicial discretion and disregarded any and all points
made.
The media cooperated in influencing public opinion in disallowing
Ray a trial, including misuse of the media to print blatant lies
and unsubstantiated innuendo (i.e., that Ray yelled racial
epithets while watching TV in jail in 1963-64 prior to the MLK
assassination; but there were no TVs in Ray's jail until 1970).
Ray's attorneys were never even admonished for entangling
themselves in publishing contracts about the Ray case while Ray's
trial was pending, an obvious conflict of interest.
The Senate Select Committee on Assassinations was "covered by a
succession of writers selected by their various employers for
their ability to integrate new information into the official
version of the case without changing its essential conclusions,
and without lending credence to any perspectives challenging the
official line."
One judge labeled Ray "libel proof" (a practice rejected by the
U.S. Supreme Court prior to the MLK case), virtually inviting the
media to print fabrications about Ray.
In 1967 Ray found a "business card bearing the initials L.E.A.A.
stuck down between the seats of [his car] just after Raoul had
traveled with him." Playboy magazine "claimed Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration hadn't been created until August 1968.
What Playboy didn't print was that there were two L.E.A.A. pilot
projects in 1967, one in Newark, New Jersey and one in New
Orleans. One of the phone numbers Raoul had given Ray was in New
Orleans. It was later learned that a 15-year aide to Hefner had
been convicted for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. He
supposedly committed suicide after being pressured by the
government to implicate Hefner.
One of Ray's attorneys received $11,000 in consultation fees from
a publisher, "even though the contract he had supervised
specified that no participants would be paid for the interview."
Further, "the Tennessee Supreme Court's Board of Professional
Responsibility...saw nothing unethical in this attorney receiving
money when he had agreed not to...."
Memphis officials and prosecutors destroyed and hid massive
amounts of intelligence, documents, and evidence collected by the
police department during the MLK assassination investigation.
The media remained silent on the evidence destruction.
Anonymously a photo of Raoul with his correct identification was
sent to Ray. Ray forwarded it to his brother with a request for
further investigation. His brother made a copy and sent the
original in a package back to Ray. Ray received the package, but
not the photo. A few days later his brother was arrested. Upon
his release, he found that his house had been rifled and, among
other things, his copy of the photo had been taken. Later Ray
identified the photo as being that of one of Raoul's cohorts Ray
had seen in the restaurant beneath the flophouse where the
assassination allegedly occurred.
Another witness in the Select Committee investigation died
mysteriously and violently within one year of his involvement
with the Committee.
A former FBI Agent made serious allegations involving unethical
and criminal acts on the part of the Select Committee's
congressional agents. But, the Select Committee was allowed to
conduct the investigation into these allegations against itself.
The media blindly accepted the predictable results of that
investigation.
The Committee knowingly allowed perjured testimony from Mr. Eist,
a former Scotland Yard employee, to corroborate the official
party line, yet would not allow Ray's attorney time to
investigate the perjury. The employee had been fired from
Scotland Yard for participating in several jewel heists and for
falsely claiming to have obtained confessions. The Committee
concealed that knowledge. The Committee knew Eist was lying, as
they had two FBI documents proving it. Further, at the time of
Ray's incarceration, Mr. Eist claims he told a reporter, but not
his superiors about Ray's "admissions." "One wonders why a
policeman would tell a reporter and not his superiors about
something so seemingly important, and why that reporter wouldn't
rush the story into print."
During the Committee hearings, Ray's testimony had been
interrupted to read Mr. Eist's claims. Ray's attorney allowed
the interruption on the condition that Ray would be allowed to
come back to complete his testimony. But when Eist appeared to
testify in person, the Committee announced that it had
"reconsidered" and would not bring Ray back to testify, a fact
over which one of the Committee staff resigned in protest. Yet,
this testimony of Mr. Eist was cited by several members of the
Committee as the primary factor leading them to conclude Ray to
be the sole murderer.
The Committee also allowed perjured testimony from Ray's former
attorney who made false claims against Ray. When asked to
substantiate his claim, he claimed he couldn't because Ray's
entire file had been "lost" after giving the file to another
attorney. The other attorney denied losing the file. But, none
of this was investigated by the Committee.
The chairman of the Committee knew but filed to mention that
Ray's former attorney had previously been involved with the
billionaire Hunt family of Texas, and had been indicted, along
with two of H. S. Hunt's sons, for obstruction of justice,
illegal wiretaps, and conspiracy charges. However, the case
against Ray's former attorney was never concluded, but held in
abeyance (for purposes that look suspiciously like strong-arming
Ray's former attorney into corroborating the official party
line). However, none of this can be proven as the Justice
Department says it has "lost" the file on this matter.
Canale, the MLK assassination prosecutor, wrote memos that verify
that all negotiations and agreements to settle the case by a
guilty plea were completed by December, 1968, prior to Ray ever
even hearing about any proposal to plead guilty, and prior to
defense having even investigated the case against Ray. The
political expediency was clear: Avoid a trial in which the
release of FBI or Memphis Police files might embarrass any
officials.
During the Committee hearings a media reporter offered Ray
$220,000 and a parole if Ray would confess to MLK's murder. This
offer was captured on tape by Ray's attorney, the transcription
of which is "eloquent proof that the prosecution had no
admissions" or confessions from Ray incriminating himself.
During G. Robert Blakey's tenure as head of the Committee, he
required all staff members to sign an agreement precluding them
from publishing any information about the King case unless the
House of Representatives or the CIA gave prior approval.
On the back of the L.E.A.A. business card was the name Randy
Rosen with a Miami address, a man who was actually Randy
Rosenson, a government informant. When Ray mentioned this to the
Committee, it "triggered a series of deceptive maneuvers designed
to keep Rosenson under wraps." Rosenson's lawyer had been G.
Wray Gill, a criminal attorney whose clientele included Carlos
Marcello. Gill had also employed David Ferrie, a prior suspect
in the JFK assassination.
The FBI had a long-running campaign against MLK. J. Edgar
Hoover's COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence PROgram) against MLK
included Hoover having "samples of his agents' handiwork sent to
King's wife, in hopes of breaking up their marriage and weakening
his stature among blacks." A veteran FBI Agent, Arthur Murtagh,
revealed that "he was asked to steal SCLC [King's organization]
stationery and handwriting samples of top SCLC officials,
presumably to forge incriminating notes and letters."
FBI Agents sent King a letter urging King to kill himself or risk
exposure. When King would visit friends, FBI Agents would call
the Fire Department to falsely report a fire at that address to
disrupt King. The FBI ran a wiretapping operation on King 24
hours a day. The FBI put King's name "on a list of names of
Americans to be rounded up and imprisoned in the event of a
national emergency." An FBI memo states, "(censored) stated to
DeLoach that he was faced with the difficult problem of taking
steps to remove King from the National picture...."
Frank Holloman, a former FBI Agent, was in charge of the Memphis
Police and Fire Department when MLK was assassinated. The only
two black firemen stationed at the firehouse directly across the
street from the Lorraine Motel (where MLK was assassinated) were
transferred one day prior to King's assassination. Four hours
prior to the assassination, the one black detective assigned to
protecting King was also removed from the scene.
When questioned about the transfer after the assassination, one
black fireman was told it was because of unspecified threats on
his life. Holloman gave evasive, vague, unsubstantiated answers.
The other black detective, Redditt, was given similar
unsubstantiated answers. Holloman summoned Redditt to a meeting
wherein every head of every law enforcement agency was present.
"'It was like a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In this
room, just before Dr. King was murdered, were the heads and
seconds in command of I guess every law enforcement operation in
this area you could think of. I had never seen anything like it
before. The Sheriff, the Highway Patrol, Army Intelligence, the
National Guard. You name it. It was in the room.' Strangely,
though, the two police guards ordered to protect Redditt's life,
did not station themselves outside Redditt's home and stay in
radio contact with each other and Redditt, where they could have
provided some real protection. Instead, they went with Redditt
inside his home, where they could watch Redditt, but not protect
him. 'If someone threw a bomb in a window, those two officers
would just have been two more casualties. Then I really knew
something was wrong.' Three days later Redditt was ordered back
to work with no more mention of the 'contract' on him."
After the assassination, there was an inexplicable thirty minute
delay in getting the FBI into the MLK case. There has also been
no explanation why it took the FBI fourteen days to come up with
Ray's identity after he left behind his radio labeled with his ID
number, a fact that would have immediately tipped the FBI to
Ray's escapee status.
Another suspicious element linking Raoul to the FBI and the FBI
to the MLK murder is the fact that the first wave of wanted
posters identified Ray as Eric Starvo Gault, the only name by
which Raoul knew Ray.
Another fact casting suspicion is the memo from FBI Agent DeLoach
to Hoover suggesting that the FBI "quietly sponsor" a book that
would tell the "true story" of the King case, adding that he
wanted to see the bureau advise a friendly newspaperman "on a
strictly confidential basis" that Loretta Scott King and Ralph
Abernathy were "deliberately plotting to keep King's
assassination in the news by pulling the ruse of maintaining the
King murder was definitely a conspiracy, and not committed by one
man, in order to keep the money coming to Mrs. King...we can do
this without attribution to the FBI and without anyone knowing
that the information came from a wiretap." (The FBI had
maintained a wiretap a year after the assassination, despite the
Attorney General's order to end such activity in 1966, in order
to provide the bureau with ammunition to use against King's heirs
and successors.)
Baetz, a Committee investigator, threatened a witness, Spica,
with jail unless Spica cooperated by perjuring himself to support
the official party line. Spica stalled and then wore a wire to
the next meeting with Baetz. Baetz "began by saying the Select
Committee knew it couldn't sell the public 'a goofy-ass story
about a lone nut killing King....' All Spica had to do was tell
the Committee in public session" certain things to corroborate
the official party line. Spica stalled again. At the next
meeting with Baetz, "Spica handed [Baetz] a copy of the tape
[from their last conversation] and told Baetz to get lost. On
November 8, 1979 Spica was murdered when his car exploded as he
tried to start it.
A judge ordered Ray's attorney to first represent a material
witness in the King case who was ordered jailed in order to later
testify against Ray. Later, the same judge ordered the same
attorney to represent Ray, an obvious conflict of interest.
There was a hoax involving a second Mustang similar to Ray's
immediately following the King assassination designed to draw the
Memphis Police to another section of town, clearly an organized
diversionary tactic.
The courts illegally muzzled and imprisoned Grace Stephens, the
one witness who was an eyewitness to the true assassin and who
was also willing to testify that her husband was too drunk to
identify anyone. This illegal imprisonment lasted for 10 years
with no legal representation and no visitors.
[...to be continued...]
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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 39
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Mexican Peso Fall Hurts You
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By Martin Mann
[From *The Spotlight*, January 9, 1995]
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Before beginning, here is an excerpt from a previously posted
"Conspiracy for the Day -- Special Edition" which went out on
or about November 4, 1993.
Lisa Fuentes, *American University* professor
C-Span II, Broadcast 10/30/93 (Taped 10/26/93)
[...]
And most troublesome is the fact that, most likely, with most
certainty, after the NAFTA treaty is passed -- if it passes,
and I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't -- Mexico is
probably going to implement a *peso* devaluation. The *peso*
is, you know, seriously overvalued. This is, you know, one of
the issues that most people want to brush under the table and
not discuss at public hearings. But you know, the *peso* has
been overvalued for a number of years and now it's getting to
the point where there is not much flexibility about the
issue. A devaluation is imminent. And what happens in
connection to that? Well, the United States is not going to
be able to sell exports to Mexico.
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[And now, from *The Spotlight*, January 9, 1995:]
A shadowy consortium of Wall Street insiders and foreign
speculators, with private links to the highest levels of the
White House and Federal Reserve System, is skimming "billions,
most probably tens of billions of dollars" in windfall profits
from the collapse of the Mexican peso and other recent
convulsions of the financial markets, economic analysts say.
American taxpayers, still unaware that a stunning $9 billion of
their money went down the drain during Christmas week as the
Clinton administration tried (and failed) to bail out the sinking
Mexican peso, now face losses "worse than the bloodletting of the
savings and loan scandals," warned Dr. Aldo Milinkovich, a former
U.S. Treasury economist who is now a corporate strategist in New
York.
Some $6 billion of the hurried handout was disguised as a so-
called "currency swap" between the Federal Reserve and the
Mexican central bank. In addition, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan
quietly ordered an additional $3 billion made available as an
"emergency stabilization fund" in order to save, not just the
Mexican payments system, but the controversial North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), adopted barely a year ago, and now
in dire peril.
The expensive effort to halt the Mexican economy's nose-dive
didn't work. "The opponents and critics of NAFTA [among whom this
paper played a leading role] are now vindicated," admitted Dr.
Emiliano Manelli, a UN economist specializing in Latin American
studies.
With the peso having lost almost half its value during the last
nine days of December, and still falling, "dirt cheap" Mexican
goods will soon begin to flood the wide-open U.S. market --
precisely the sort of calamity the promoters of NAFTA, led by
Bill Clinton, swore would never happen, these sources warned.
But for an inner circle of well-connected financiers and currency
manipulators with behind-the-scenes access to confidential
economic information, the money market upheavals of recent months
represent "the biggest get-rich-quick bonanza anyone can
remember," says another respected financial analyst who, having
left Wall Street's leading statistical service this year to join
a major investment bank, asked not to be quoted by name.
"Just as predicted, this fraudulent free trade pact will end up
hurting the workers, taxpayers and savings depositors of both the
U.S. and Mexico," concluded Dr. Manelli.
The ancient Romans asked: *Cui bono*? That is, who profits? Who
gets the tax dollars? Not the peasants on either side of the
border. Your tax dollars went to bail out the major investors;
those with the greatest "exposure" when the peso tumbled, to
wit: Citicorp, BankAmerica, Chase Manhattan Corp., Chemical
Banking Corp., NationsBank Corp. and Bank of Boston Corp.
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GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE "MASTER RACE"
My transcript of a recent episode of a public access show,
originating in Chicago, called "Broadsides". This episode
featured independent researcher Sherman Skolnick, and author Mark
Sato. Note that in the following I neither necessarily agree nor
disagree with some or all of the views expressed.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
O.K. Haven't some in that field [genetics], have said that the
different races are better off to have a larger [gene] pool,
because the, for example the inbreeding of the British royal
family has caused a lot of problems that not always gets
published. That insanity grows in their family and the present
royal family...
MARK SATO:
Quite true. Quite true, yes.
SKOLNICK:
..has got some of their members "tucked away" someplace. And it
was only one of the grocery magazines that pointed out that Queen
Elizabeth (whatever her name is, over there) has got two cousins
who uh, she insisted that they change their name in the "nut
house" because... In other words, insanity goes from inbreeding.
So having a large pool of genes, in the view of some that know
about genetics, is actually better!
SATO:
Yes. That's true. But... Uh and these people are aware of that!
These...
SKOLNICK:
So why could they want to build a "master race"?
SATO:
Well, they... You see, they believe that despite the fact that
having a *variety* of genes in the gene pool is very good, they
still would like to get rid of a lot of people. Because there's
just "too many" people.
Now you mentioned the royal family. Let me give ya a quote from
Prince Phillip, who was the Duke of Edinburgh. And he favored
animals over people! And what he said was, "Every new acre
brought into cultivation" (that is, under farming) "means another
acre denied to wild species." In other words, he was against it.
He was against, he was against more farming. He wanted there to
be more wildlife, because he didn't like people. So...
SKOLNICK:
O.K. But the point is, though, Hitler and what he stood for was
promoting eugenics. In other words, he was more or less "pruning
out" people. And the ones he didn't want -- the Jews, the
gypsies, invalids, or whatever -- he sent 'em to concentration
camp. Those that could work, he worked 'em to death. And the
other ones died. And historical revisionists would have you
believe that they didn't die because they were gassed (although I
think that they were)... But in any case, we call that...
SATO:
They were just... No matter how they did it, they exterminated a
lot of people. They did do that.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah, right. In other words, millions of people disappeared.
But notice the problem here: the Catholic church promotes uh,
"full speed ahead" on population. Which, it "bugs" me in a way.
Because um, Pope John Paul I, according to the book by David
Yallop called *In God's Name*, John Paul I was gonna revise their
birth control opposition in that, to spawn children that you
cannot feed is itself a sin. And to that extent they were gonna
modify the Catholic church's program. Because you know, when the
Pope comes visiting to the western hemisphere, he travels through
all these heavily Catholic countries -- Mexico, Central America,
South America -- and in so many words he says, "Full speed
ahead." You know, "Manufacture as many children as you can!"
Because he's against, you know, birth control. And the result is,
that their only cash crop is *dope*. And so, I mean, nobody
candidly comes right out in front and says, "Well. Everything
south of the United States is based on dope." They don't grow
anything that's that worthwhile other than, you know, I mean
marijuana, the uh, and so on.
What about that? Is there some contradiction between what the
Pope is doing and what the eugenics people are doing? I mean
what, what's...
SATO:
Of course there's a dichotomy.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah, well what about it? What's a dichotomy?
SATO:
The division. In other words, on one side you have people who
want to get rid of most of the people on the face of the earth.
And on the other hand you have people who want there to be *more*
people on earth. And in the case of the Vatican, they would like
there to be more people...
SKOLNICK:
More Catholics!
SATO:
..because, it means more Catholics! More money in the plate!
SKOLNICK:
O.K. but notice: David [Yallop] -- His book came out in 1983 and
it seems to be well-documented. And he took the position that,
after 33 days, they poisoned John Paul I because of his policies.
And he [Yallop] proved that there *was* such a policy and that's
why they killed him [John Paul I]. Of course, the Michael Sindona
scandal, the Mafia and the Vatican Bank had somethin' to do with
the death of John Paul I. But the thesis of his book is that they
poisoned him after 33 days as the Pope because he wanted to
modify the uh, the birth control opposition of the Catholic
church.
Listen. The Catholic church is not noted for being the greatest,
clever people of the 20th century! I mean it was only up until
1806 that you could be thrown out of the church for alleging that
the earth was not flat.
SATO:
It's not?
SKOLNICK:
I mean... Well, all right. In other words, there *was* the flat
earth committee.
Now up 'til 1806, the Catholic church was the flat earth
committee. You could be expro... Not expropriated, but... What's
the word?
SATO:
Excommunicated.
SKOLNICK:
Excommunicated or re-communicated or *whatever*, for saying that
the world is round!
So in other words, there is a dichotomy. You're saying that
there's some that wanted to limit the population, and the others
wanted uncontrolled population.
SATO:
Right. Right. But the people who want to control population --
they just think that there's too many people and they're sucking
up all the earth's resources.
SKOLNICK:
And the Hitler movement was part of that?
SATO:
They were part of it.
Now. And of course, the whole idea was sponsored by the U.S. and
British bankers, the Harriman family being foremost. One of their
progeny, George Herbert Walker Bush, is *also* a population
control freak. Despite...
SKOLNICK:
Is he?
SATO:
Oh yeah. Despite... He's one of the leading promoters of
population control legislation...
SKOLNICK:
Well later in this program we're gonna discuss what *he* did to
"control" population. I mean, something bloody, brutal, and...
SATO:
But you know, getting back to the Nazis. Just in case people
think that the Nazis were *only* trying to get rid of what *they*
considered to be people who were infirm or less than "genetically
whole". A Berlin attorney named Ludwig Fluugen(sp?) said that
"great talent is associated with defects or weaknesses in other
organs. I call these persons, 'superiority afflicted'." In other
words, they're afflicted with superiority! Not with
*in*feriority.
SKOLNICK:
Well under Hitler's program, a lot of those that were hunchbacks
or cripples, whatever, would've been eliminated. And throughout
history, some of the great scientists were uh, "irregulars". In
other words (you know what I mean), they were either too short or
they limped or they had a hunchback. Or whatever. But under
Hitler...
SATO:
And in addition...
SKOLNICK:
Under Hitler's program they would've had only blonde, 6-foot high
people.
SATO:
But that wasn't really the only real problem, Sherman. The real
problem was that these people were *intellectually* superior, and
therefore, able to have great influence in the community. They
didn't want those people around, telling people, "Hey. These
Nazis are out of their minds!" *That* was one of the big
problems.
SKOLNICK:
So you're saying that the 6-foot high, blonde-haired, teutonic
German types, that were found dead on so many battlefields in the
Second World War, were not the intelligentsia, the very clever
types?
SATO:
Well they got rid of them at home! *Before* they ever got to the
battlefield. They had... Sherman, that's very common in many
dictatorships, where the dictator has to get rid of the
intelligentsia, because they're the only ones who can influence
the people against the dictatorship!
SKOLNICK:
All right, so what was Hitler's point? What was Hitler trying to
do: weed out the thing and make a "master race"?
SATO:
Well... Yeah.
SKOLNICK:
Well what... This is, this is gonna fall hard on some people:
isn't that the same point that the FBI does? The FBI had a
program, which was brought out...
SATO:
It's a "pogrom", Sherman.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah! It was brought out by an FBI agent named Freedman (maybe he
was the only Jew in the FBI), but he pointed out that his
supervisors have more or less reached the conclusion -- he
testified before Congress -- that blacks are "inferior" and
therefore, even if they get elected, they should be "framed",
removed from office by "frame ups", and if that didn't work, the
implication was to "knock 'em off"! Poison them, kill them.
So in other words, there are Nazi mentalities in the United
States.
SATO:
Yeah, that's getting a little ahead of us. Yeah. But that's
essentially correct.
SKOLNICK:
In other words, the [unclear] mentioned theory of the FBI higher-
ups is on this same Nazi principle, right? [Unclear] means like,
"neanderthal". In other words, higher-ups in the FBI...
SATO:
[Unclear]
SKOLNICK:
Yeah. In other words, the FBI theory is that the Afro-Americans
are "inferior", they're neanderthals, they don't belong here, and
they shouldn't be in office. And therefore, "frame" 'em, jail
'em, or if necessary, poison them.
SATO:
That's the same philosophy of...
SKOLNICK:
It's a Hitler philosophy!
SATO:
..of the Hitler philosophy, but *also* of the people who are
promoting population control today!
[...to be continued...]
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GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE "MASTER RACE"
My transcript of a recent episode of a public access show,
originating in Chicago, called "Broadsides". This episode
featured independent researcher Sherman Skolnick, and author Mark
Sato. Note that in the following I neither necessarily agree nor
disagree with some or all of the views expressed.
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[...continued...]
MARK SATO [continues]:
And to give you an example: after the Nazis kind of "went
away"...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well that's your theory that they went away.
SATO:
Well...
SKOLNICK:
I don't think they went away at all.
SATO:
Well, they were...
SKOLNICK:
I think they're still here!
SATO:
..they were, allegedly, defeated.
But, of course, they *didn't* go away, precisely because the
people who sponsored the idea of eugenics didn't go away.
SKOLNICK:
..a eugenics society in the United States promoting this?
SATO:
By and large, the idea of eugenics has floated over to the
environmental people.
SKOLNICK:
Really?
SATO:
Pollution control and...
SKOLNICK:
Pollution's about the same thing?
SATO:
Yeah. Pollution control means population control, because the
more people you have the more pollution you have, and the more
danger we all face because there's "too many" people on the face
of the earth!
SKOLNICK:
And the aristocracy, a few years ago, through one of their secret
society meetings -- the Bilderbergs or Trilateral Commission,
whatever -- say, "Hey. All you in the aristocracy! Promote
environmental. We gotta have..."
Where'd they have their conference? In Brazil or something? They
had some big conference: "Promote the Environment".
SATO:
Just recently they had the Cairo Conference.
SKOLNICK:
O.K. So, but what you're saying is, this is just another word for
eugenics,
SATO:
That's right.
SKOLNICK:
..to "weed out" what they feel are "inferior" people.
SATO:
Now most of the environmentalists are, consider themselves
liberal. And they would be horrified of this idea that you would
*pick* the, for the most part, the people of color to get rid of
because there's "too many" people on the face of the earth. But
that, by and large, is what they *really* are saying, despite
their perhaps, ignorance...
SKOLNICK:
Well they have the media on their side.
SATO:
..the real meaning of their movement.
SKOLNICK:
I mean, they have the media on their side. Because, I mean, who
do ya see as what I call "anchor faces", anchor people? "Blonde-
haired dummies", as I call 'em. With a few token Oriental-
Americans and a few... Like Linda Yu, over here, who's connected
with the Chinese royal family...
SATO:
Well they are indeed, Sherman, they are indeed tokens. Because
the modern science... I don't really wanna call it "science". But
the modern philosophy of eugenics is, was fathered by Bertrand
Russell.
SKOLNICK:
What about him?
SATO:
Well Bertrand Russell, who was a British (and I hesitate to use
the word "philosophy")...
SKOLNICK:
I thought he was for peace? That's the only time I heard of
Bertrand Russell, I heard he was...
SATO:
Well... Bertrand Russell was *for* peace -- as in, "rest in
peace" -- for most of the people of the earth. He said, "The
white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The
asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer,
before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers
stable without help of war and pestilence." And of course, he
*did* mean to impose war and pestilence on the asians and the,
what he called "negroes". "Until that happens, the benefits aimed
at by socialism can only be partially realized." (He was a
socialist.) "And the less prolific races will have to defend
themselves" -- Wait a minute -- "will have to defend themselves
by methods which are disgusting, even if they are necessary."
SKOLNICK:
I... He either mis-used the term socialism, in applying to
himself... But there is a certain...
SATO:
Never mind, Sherman. That's a *whole* different thing. Let's not
get off on that tangent. Don't worry about... Don't worry about
Mr. Russell's mis-using the word, because he wants to mis-use the
entire planet! So don't worry about that little item.
SKOLNICK:
So, in other words, he was for "peace" from the standpoint of
"rest in peace". Well all right.
SATO:
Right. Now the progress of Mr. Russell's ideas wound up in a
report called "Global 2000".
SKOLNICK:
Which is the title of this show.
SATO:
Which is the title of this show. This big report, which was
authored under the auspices of the Jimmy Carter administration.
And of course, he is running around the world promoting the
ideals of Global 2000.
SKOLNICK:
I thought he was a born-again something.
SATO:
Well... That's what he says. But anyway...
SKOLNICK:
He's evidently not a born-again geneticist.
SATO:
..here comes the number you were looking for, Sherman. "Global
2000 proposes that the population of the earth be lowered to 2
billion." Now of course...
SKOLNICK:
By what means?
SATO:
Well they don't say, exactly. But they want to lower it [to] 2
billion by the year 2000! That's why the report's called "Global
2000". There's 5.6 billion people on the face of the planet right
now. Which means that they're gonna have to get rid of 3.6
billion people!
SKOLNICK:
Well there's two ways you can do it.
SATO:
In six years!
SKOLNICK:
Well, no. There's two ways: they can start a nuclear war which
endeavors to "knock off" a lot of people. I don't know where the
aristocracy is gonna go; they're gonna go off in a missile to the
moon or something.
SATO:
Well, Sherman...
[...contention for who will speak...]
Wait, wait. Before you go on! You shoot these things off, and
then let me get a chance to...
SKOLNICK:
Six years! They want to "knock off" that many...
SATO:
They want to "knock off" that many people. But guess who says
that it's a great way to do it?! What you just said, atomic war
-- Robert S. McNamara, the former head of the World Bank, says
that's, you know, "Nuclear war is great."
SKOLNICK:
He's not a dummy. He was among what they called the "Wiz Kids"...
SATO:
Of course he's not a dummy! And he knows what he's talking about!
He knows how to wipe people off the face of the earth with a
bunch of nuclear weapons. And he'd like to do it.
SKOLNICK:
Well. I don't...
SATO:
Because he says that the single biggest obstacle to progress on
this planet is that there are "too many" people in the developing
countries. So we can't have progress on the rest of the planet
unless those people get "jettisoned" off the planet!
SKOLNICK:
O.K. But let me understand this. In what way does the eugenics
differ from genocide?
SATO:
It doesn't!
SKOLNICK:
It's about the same thing.
SATO:
It's the same thing!
SKOLNICK:
In other words, it should be "eugenics/genocide".
SATO:
Genocide. And in a way, it's even more than genocide. It's like
"geneticide" because they want to kill the bad genes...
SKOLNICK:
You know, it's very odd. Because the ultra-right wing does a very
odd thing: they use their newspapers to fight any treaty that has
to do with genocide. And they twist it out of shape and says,
"Well it's *bad* for the people."
SATO:
Well that's because the "Genocide Treaty", as it's called, is
really not about genocide.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah, O.K.
SATO:
That's a misnomer. It really doesn't apply.
SKOLNICK:
But in other words, these eugenics, this genocide -- who is it
directed against? Against people of color?
SATO:
It's directed *mostly* at people of color. But it's really, not
really necessarily a racial thing. It's more of a class thing.
Let me give you an example.
SKOLNICK:
A class thing.
SATO:
Let me give you an example.
In December of '74, there was a National Security Study
Memorandum, number 200, which was authored by Henry Kissinger --
formerly known as "Heinz" Kissinger, because he's actually a
German. A German *zafardi*(?), by the way. And it was called,
"The Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S.
Security and Overseas Interests." And it was about the national
security of the United States.
Now understand: whenever somebody says, "national security",
they're talking a treasonous thing. Because whenever people talk
about "national security" of the United States, they're saying,
"*We* want to discuss something that is so horrendous that nobody
in their right minds would discuss it..."
SKOLNICK:
By the way, you brought up one angle of the Second World War, the
European angle, the Holocaust and so on...
SATO:
Wait, wait, wait. Before you go back...
SKOLNICK:
And that was genocide.
SATO:
Right. Before you go back, let me finish this, let me finish
this.
This National Security Memorandum expressed the fear that
population growth in the Third World "will threaten U.S.
strategic raw material supplies." In other words, too many
people, say, in certain countries, in Latin America, would
*threaten* the ability of the United States to access those
strategic raw materials.
Now. What right we have to dictate how we get our strategic raw
materials is of a little bit of interest. But anyway, the
countries that Kissinger targeted for this "problem" of
overpopulation were India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico,
Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey,
Ethiopia, and Columbia. He wanted "to inhibit the wishful
thinking that economic development will solve the problem of
overpopulation." In other words, there is *no* economic
development that would help; we must get *rid* of the people.
[...to be continued...]
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GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE "MASTER RACE"
My transcript of a recent episode of a public access show,
originating in Chicago, called "Broadsides". This episode
featured independent researcher Sherman Skolnick, and author Mark
Sato. Note that in the following I neither necessarily agree nor
disagree with some or all of the views expressed.
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[...continued...]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
But come back to my point. The Second World War, in... to put it
in its simplest form, was a form of genocide...
MARK SATO:
That's correct.
SKOLNICK:
..directed against the, whatever you wanna call 'em, the
"unwanted" of Europe...
SATO:
Right.
SKOLNICK:
..And, you know, it is now becoming evident, fifty years, you
know, after the Second World War, that 6 months before they
dropped their genocide bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 6 months
before that, Emperor Hirohito was already negotiating through
Switzerland to end the war. And our side didn't want to end the
war!
So all this hoopla that they've made in the "history" books that
"we dropped the atomic bomb because the Japanese were gonna fight
to the death and we were gonna lose a million troops storming
their homeland" -- we Americans rejected a genuine effort to end
the war...
SATO:
Now don't say "we Americans". The *elite* who were controlling...
SKOLNICK:
Yeah, right. That doesn't include the rest of us...
SATO:
That's right.
SKOLNICK:
..that were alive at the time.
SATO:
We had no say...
SKOLNICK:
The common people.
Yeah, you're right. But the point is, notice the genocide
application: they *had* the atomic bomb early enough; they
could've dropped it on Hitler! On Germany. They didn't do it.
See, 'cause that didn't fit their genocide. They dropped it on
the people of color -- which would be the Japanese. And you know,
you know what...
To this day, they don't talk about Nagasaki. I mean, Hiroshima --
they dropped *another* bomb on Nagasaki!
I mean, so we now know, fifty years later, it was unnecessary.
They could've ended the war. And all this stuff in the "history"
books, that *that* ended the war, is false.
SATO:
That is correct.
SKOLNICK:
In other words, it was strictly genocide. Why? Because the
burgeoning population of the eastern world, the Japanese, was
disturbing the ultra-rich of this country in some way. I mean,
they were wanting to broaden out their markets, they needed oil,
this and that. We strangled 'em, and after we strangled 'em on
metal and oil, they rose up and they bombed Pearl Harbor -- which
was a natural thing! I mean, you strangle somebody, he's gonna
resist, or "croak"!
[CN -- Not to say, by any means, that the Japanese were all
angels during WWII. In my view, Skolnick is essentially correct.
However another motive for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
was that these politicians and these "scientists" had a new toy
that they were dying to try out. Also, Skolnick's view of the so-
called "strangling" of Japan by the U.S. is one-sided: Japan was
also an imperialist power, in its turn "strangling" other
nations.]
And so the "history" books -- they've left some things out.
They've left out the genocide angle in all this.
SATO:
Right. And so, what your example really points up is that Robert
McNamara's insistence that nuclear war is a "good" way to get rid
of people is a... we should take that very seriously because he
is from the same group of people who would be *quite* willing to
bomb the crap out of everybody on the face of the planet, simply
because they need to get rid of some people!
And that's the *only* reason. That's all the reason they need.
SKOLNICK:
Listen. Is the bottom line, is it your view from researching all
this, that these devils really and seriously, in the remaining
few years of the 20th century, would do this "Global 2000" and
want to get rid of "x" number of people?
SATO:
Sure.
SKOLNICK:
How?
SATO:
By nuclear war. By famine. By disease -- AIDS is one of the ways
in which they have decided to get rid of a lot of people.
SKOLNICK:
Do I gather that they have "written off" Africa as undesireable?
SATO:
That's what I just said: AIDS is one of the ways in which they're
gonna try and get rid of people. And that... AIDS is a weapon
that has been pointed...
SKOLNICK:
Most at Africa.
SATO:
..most dreadfully, at Africa. Yes.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah they talk about these other famines caused by civil wars.
But the main thing that's killing off Africa is AIDS. And it's
not from green monkeys...
SATO:
No, we engineered AIDS in this country.
SKOLNICK:
At Fort Meade, or wherever.
SATO:
That's right. We engineered AIDS: both HIV-I and HIV-II...
SKOLNICK:
In Maryland. That was the mad doctors of...
SATO:
..were engineered in this country.
SKOLNICK:
..the Central Intelligence Agency, at least *I* believe, that
created AIDS. And I wouldn't say it was a thing that got out of
control. It may have been intentional...
SATO:
No, it wasn't a thing that got out of control. It was
intentionally introduced into Africa, HIV-II, was intentionally
introduced into Africa for the purpose of wiping them out!
*Because*, [sarcastically] <>
SKOLNICK:
O.K. But call...
SATO:
And they threaten our "national security" interests.
SKOLNICK:
You were the one that did a big research project that we used on
an earlier program, maybe a year or more ago, about AIDS, that
basically it -- since the homosexuals were considered "not
desireable" for the Army, I mean, [sarcastically] <>
SATO:
That's right. Well, one more "national security" risk. They were
considered a "national security" risk. And therefore...
SKOLNICK:
So, in other words...
SATO:
..it was allowed to get rid of... HIV-I was introduced...
SKOLNICK:
So...
SATO:
..into the homosexual community.
SKOLNICK:
..AIDS, in its simplest form, is a genocide attack on certain
categories...
SATO:
There is no question about it.
SKOLNICK:
But they allege (if you believe the media at all) that it is
targeting heterosexuals in some way or another. So it...
SATO:
Well, O.K.
SKOLNICK:
..it, the "mad doctor" thing got out of hand.
SATO:
No, no, no.
SKOLNICK:
..they intended it to "wipe out" the gay community.
SATO:
No, no. It didn't -- yes, wipe 'em out. But also...
SKOLNICK:
>From a national...
SATO:
..You see...
SKOLNICK:
..security standpoint: "They're not suitable to be in the Army
-- get rid of 'em! Kill 'em all!"
SATO:
You see, it *has* gone into the heterosexual population. But
*how* has it gone into the heterosexual population?
One of the other *key* groups that HIV-I is attacking are
intravenous drug users. They were also a target.
SKOLNICK:
So there's a contradiction, a dichotomy there. 'Cause there is
the CIA and the aristocracy bringing *in* the dope. Then after
they get 'em hooked on dope, you're saying, "Well. Now we're
gonna kill 'em!" [laughs]
SATO:
There will *always* be a market for dope.
SKOLNICK:
There's a contradiction there!
SATO:
No, no. There will always be a market for dope. They're not
worried about that, one little bit.
So they'd just as soon kill them off, and...
SKOLNICK:
This very bizarre thought occurred to me. I don't know how it's
gonna fly, but just let me try to fly it: Hitler, in its simplest
form, was more fair on the genocide thing than *these* guys. He
didn't start with the biological thing. I mean, he rounded up the
"undesireables", put 'em in concentration camps -- uh, next to
I.G. Farben's facilities for artificial gasoline and all that
kind of stuff.
SATO:
..Rockefeller...
SKOLNICK:
Yeah! And worked 'em to death, and killed off those that he
didn't work to death.
In some way he was more (what is the word?)... the word "fair"
isn't it. He was more "straight in front" [i.e. "up front"].
*Now* they're saying, "Oh! This strange disease 'showed up'
that's killing the people." And we don't have a devil! We can't
point the [unclear] and says, "Hey! That's where it's comin'
from." You see what I'm saying? In other words, Hitler was a
known devil. Where are the known devils? Where *is* the
Euthanasia Society? Where is the Eugenics Society? What's their
address? Do ya know it?
SATO:
They're in the Chase Manhattan Bank.
SKOLNICK:
Well that's the, that's the proper place for them to be! [laughs]
SATO:
It's largely, largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and
other, similar foundations set up by the super-rich.
SKOLNICK:
In other words, they're not prepared to come right out in front
and say, "Hey. We're against these people. We set off this
epidemic bomb, this AIDS thing. We're gonna get rid of all these
people. And if ya don't leave, we're gonna ship ya to some
godforsaken island in the Pacific and starve ya to death."
[laughs]
In other words... I don't mean to laugh or joke, but in other
words, the entire thing is, is evil. And what? And they're
promoting books and stuff that they're gonna work the population
down, or...
SATO:
Well, of course. Yeah. There's a lot of different ways that...
SKOLNICK:
..line 'em up and machine gun 'em to death.
SATO:
There's a lot of different ways that they're subtly killing
people, which don't appear to be genocidal. I mean, usually when
people think of genocidal things, they usually think of war
and...
SKOLNICK:
So that the introduction...
SATO:
At least *purposeful* genocide.
[...to be continued...]
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GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE "MASTER RACE"
My transcript of a recent episode of a public access show,
originating in Chicago, called "Broadsides". This episode
featured independent researcher Sherman Skolnick, and author Mark
Sato. Note that in the following I neither necessarily agree nor
disagree with some or all of the views expressed.
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[...continued...]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right. So that the ultra-rich, then, have introduced dope, on
a big scale, into the United States. Why? First of all, they want
to enrich themselves. But secondly, they have genocide in mind,
right?
MARK SATO:
That's right.
SKOLNICK:
Because I...
SATO:
To give you an example: they are perfectly aware that narcotic
drug use is very dangerous. Thirty-one percent of all New Yorkers
who were murdered last year were murdered because of drug use!
SKOLNICK:
Do you believe it's a...
SATO:
So it's a very dangerous thing -- not only that they're using
drugs, but also it tends to make them become dead. I mean...
SKOLNICK:
But tell me if this generality is suitable: that sometimes the
(what is the word?), some of the better-educated people in the
black community somehow get onto the drugs. Is that a generality
that makes any sense?
SATO:
Well it makes sense...
SKOLNICK:
..way to get rid of 'em.
SATO:
Well, here. Here's an interesting question: why is it that these
drug dealers, whose (at the lowest level, anyway), whose main
idea is, "I wanna make some money!" All right? "I wanna make some
money, dealing drugs." *Why* do they go to the poorest
communities to try and make money? Does that make sense?
SKOLNICK:
No, they're not sellin' it there. They're sellin' it to
suburbanites...
SATO:
Well then, how...
SKOLNICK:
..who come to a certain corner.
SATO:
Sherman, now they are, finally. They are now. But what you just
said before -- "They go into a black neighborhood and they sell."
SKOLNICK:
To kill 'em.
SATO:
*Why* would a profit-seeking entrepreneur, drug dealer, want to
go into the *poorest* neighborhoods -- a black neighborhood, an
hispanic neighborhood -- and sell drugs!? That doesn't make a
whole lot of sense, does it? *Unless* their philosophy is exactly
like the British was, back when they introduced opium into China
for the purpose of...
SKOLNICK:
To subdue 'em.
SATO:
..for the purpose, not necessarily of profit -- although they
*did* make a profit, because they rolled over the Chinese economy
-- but it was to control the Chinese.
It is that...
SKOLNICK:
Through the opium dens...
SATO:
It is that purpose which is causing the introduction, wholesale,
for this century, into the black communities and hispanic
communities of narcotic drugs. That's what *I* see it as. It is a
form of eugenics. It is a form of getting rid of people,
purposely, using narcotics *as* *a* *weapon*.
SKOLNICK:
What you're saying, which is borne out by the census reports...
And that there seems to be an *attack* on black males between the
age of, what? Fifteen to thirty-two?
SATO:
Go younger: as soon as they get out of the womb -- *if* they come
out of the womb -- from that time, they are targets.
SKOLNICK:
What bothers me is, that occasionally the media tells you the
truth, but not in a proper context. For example, they interview
some people... They interviewed some kids in Roseland that were
eleven years old, twelve years old, in this recent flare-up there
[i.e., circa November, 1994, the story of the eleven year old
alleged gunman who, in turn, was murdered in Chicago]. And some
of these young people said, "I..." (in so many words), "I live
from day to day. And I don't know if I'll get killed on the way
to school or..." In other words, they're actually...
SATO:
Always at risk.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah. They're always at risk. As if...
But you see the problem is, the media has you believe that it's
just another black causing the risk, when it's the introduction
of dope into the black community that's causing the genocide.
SATO:
*And*, along with the introduction of guns -- which always
follows the drugs. And so you have this lethal combination of
drugs and guns which is introduced into the community.
SKOLNICK:
But in other words, is the thesis of your research that the
United States has taken over where Hitler left off?
SATO:
Not the United States, necessarily.
SKOLNICK:
Is it the American aristocracy?
SATO:
Yes. The American and the British aristocracy, which has taken
this over.
SKOLNICK:
Who *have* no country. I mean, their country...
SATO:
Their "country" is *money*. That's their "country".
SKOLNICK:
Well now notice this (which I don't think this is a digression),
but in this recent Gulf War there was something about that that
really bothered me. The media played it up and... First of all,
the media was forbidden to ever show bodies. So all ya saw were
their tanks blown up on highways, their trucks and all that. But
you never... You weren't allowed to see any bodies! You couldn't
have any wire service, any "photo pool" or whatever, photograph
bodies and show *you* that on the evening "news".
SATO:
"Nobody died."
SKOLNICK:
Well wait a minute! Something happened there...
SATO:
It was a "wonderful" war.
SKOLNICK:
..Something happened there which, there was a documentary -- but
it was only shown in one place in Chicago. And I think our
moderator [Cliff Kelley] saw it.
At the close of this short war, our side killed 100,000 young
Iraqis under a flag of surrender.
Hey. I consider myself a good American. I've lived in Chicago all
my life... uh, I'm not proud of this. With the yellow ribbons and
the marching, and victory parades.
And some of the pilots said, "It was like shooting fish in a
barrel!"
There's only one other time in all of history when one side
killed the other side under a flag of surrender, and that was in
the Battle of the Bulge during the Second World War. And the
German army, in a moment of desperation, killed about 60 or 70
Americans with their hands up...
SATO:
So we got that beat, don't we?
SKOLNICK:
*One-hundred* *thousand*! And most Americans don't know about it.
When I mention this, they says, "Has it been on the evening
'news'?" I says, "No. It's not allowed!"
Imagine. 100,000 Iraqis, under a flag of surrender, were
slaughtered.
SATO:
And of course, that's on *top* of the hundreds of thousands, the
millions, who were killed during the Iran-Iraq War of the '80s,
which lasted for nine years.
SKOLNICK:
And we *now* understand...
SATO:
Which was *our* provocation and the provocation of the Israeli
Mossad.
SKOLNICK:
And we now understand (fifty years later) that the great atomic
bomb destruction of Japan was unnecessary. The Hiro... Hirohito
wanted peace through Switzerland, six months before. We rejected
it. So I mean, there's been genocide going on again and again and
again.
SATO:
Right. And it's going on right now in Africa...
SKOLNICK:
The AIDS thing.
SATO:
Not just the AIDS thing, but all the, the wars of attrition, the
famine, and the disease that's going on right now. The war in
Rwanda has cost 500,000 dead. Upwards of 500,000.
SKOLNICK:
By the way...
SATO:
*Plus* the ones who are still dying.
SKOLNICK:
I don't wanna go into the whole Rwanda thing. But the thing that
the press never mentions about Rwanda is that the French
colonialists, the ones that, over the decades, instigated the
"tribal" thing... Notice: French troops came in there...
[CN -- Skolnick does not expand on this reference. I have as my
source a local radio show of good credibility, "News From
Neptune", that the two warring tribes in Rwanda were created
arbitrarily by the French colonialists, during their occupation.
In other words, the two "tribes" that were slaughtering each
other were an artificial creation. I forget how exactly the
French divided them; it may have been according to height.]
SATO:
But the British, the British intelligence knocked the plane...
SKOLNICK:
Yeah.
SATO:
..out of the air. Um, oh gosh. I'm gonna have to...
SKOLNICK:
With the two presidents that died.
SATO:
Yeah. Juvenal [unclear] was assassinated in a plane crash which
was arranged by British intelligence for the purpose of starting
this war!
[CN -- The slaughter in Rwanda began after a plane, carrying the
leaders of the two "tribes", crashed. Sato (LaRouche says this
also) is saying that the plane was sabotaged in order to
instigate the subsequent war and horrible slaughter.
By the way, you may be wondering: Why didn't those slaughtered
Rwandans defend themselves? Answer: They had no guns.]
SKOLNICK:
Now the right wing -- to their credit, at the moment -- from
their paper [CN -- Uh-oh, could Skolnick perhaps mean *The
Spotlight*?] (which I don't always agree with their politics)
have been playing up that there's something odd going on in
*this* *country*. That we're facing, possibly, martial law.
By the way, I once addressed a political science class at
Northeastern Illinois... At DeKalb. Northern Illinois University
[CN -- My alma mater]. And guess how they spelled "martial law"?
SATO:
Never mind.
SKOLNICK:
They didn't know how to spell it.
But the point is, what are all these foreign troops doing on
American soil now? In other words, are they planning some
genocide against we, more common Americans? And who do they have
in mind?
SATO:
I think that relates to the questions that were asked soldiers.
In May of this year, they asked American GIs, this year [1994],
whether they would *shoot* Americans, under certain given
conditions.
[...to be continued...]
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GLOBAL 2000: EARTH FIRST! FOR THE "MASTER RACE"
My transcript of a recent episode of a public access show,
originating in Chicago, called "Broadsides". This episode
featured independent researcher Sherman Skolnick, and author Mark
Sato. Note that in the following I neither necessarily agree nor
disagree with some or all of the views expressed.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And so they were disqualified. And the ones that said, "Yes"...
MARK SATO:
Well...
SKOLNICK:
..proceeded to the next step in the project?
SATO:
..Well, no. Obviously they have a problem. Especially if...
SKOLNICK:
*Who* has a problem?
SATO:
GIs. If they are sent into a... Let's say they're sent into an
African-American community and they're told, "This community is
out of control. Go in there and impose martial law. And if
anybody moves, shoot 'em."
Now there's quite a large minority of the GIs, in this country,
who are African-American. Now...
SKOLNICK:
They're trying to get 'em out! They're trying to whittle them
down, out of the army!
SATO:
Now, now, now, Sherman. Nevertheless -- Hey. They're not gonna
whittle 'em down in six years, Sherman. There's gonna be plenty
of 'em in the army at the time at which they're going to promote
and provoke problems in African-American communities and send
troops in there for the purpose of gunning down as many people as
they can.
SKOLNICK:
Well, notice this...
SATO:
O.K.? Wait a minute, Sherman!
And so, when they ask black GIs, "Will you shoot Americans?",
they really know that, you know, anybody who's got half a brain
understands what the question really means. It means, "Will I
shoot my brother, in his own community, in his doorway?" That's
what it really means.
SKOLNICK:
But notice: some of us view the Vietnam War in very cynical
terms. In the '60s, from all these civil rights marches [by] Dr.
King and others, there were rising expectations...
SATO:
By the way, Sherman. Before you get into that, I'd just like to
make one very important point about these African-American GIs
*in* a situation in which they would be required (unless they
wanted to be hung) to shoot their brothers -- and that is that,
the situation in Roseland that you mentioned has caused the FBI
to go into the Roseland community, to be, to mingle with the
police...
SKOLNICK:
The gestapo!
SATO:
Yeah, the gestapo.
..to mingle with the police. And this is a first strike, in the
black communities in Chicago, to start provoking the African-
American [unclear] into...
SKOLNICK:
Federal police.
SATO:
Wait a minute. Sherman. Quiet.
..into a situation in which there will be the requirement that
American GIs, and black GIs, be sent into this community for the
distinct purpose of wiping out their brothers!
SKOLNICK:
On the excuse that there's...
SATO:
..there's trouble.
SKOLNICK:
There's dope that the CIA brought in.
SATO:
There's dope, there's guns, which has been brought in by the
British and American...
SKOLNICK:
All right. But notice this genocide problem, that this is an
ongoing thing.
During the Vietnam War, the black population of the United States
was eleven-and-a-half percent. But they constituted twenty-six
percent of those that were in the jungles in Vietnam. Blacks.
People of color.
Now what was the problem at that time, and from a cynical
standpoint? Dr. King and others, because of the marching, was
getting the blacks with rising expectation: equal employment,
"they're gonna have a house", "they're gonna have a job", and so
on. And how did LBJ [President Johnson] deal with this? With the
body bags. He sent 'em over there to be slaughtered! That's how
he dealt with their rising expectations.
*And*, here's the "national security" question, the so-called.
When Dr. King, in April of '67 made a speech, what'd he say? He
says, "*I* am going to go to Vietnam to tell black GIs not to
slaughter yellow-skinned people in somebody else's civil war." So
he was implying the genocide angle right there. And of course, a
year to the day, they slaughtered him.
SATO:
Sherman...
SKOLNICK:
On "national security" reasons!
SATO:
Sherman, you make, you made an even *more* important point at the
outset: that is...
SKOLNICK:
..yellow people...
SATO:
No, no, no.
..that King was trying to hold out hope for economic development
of the African-American communities. *That* is *verboten*. You
cannot do that.
What'd they say in this National Security Study Memorandum
written by Henry Kissinger? They said, "*Forget* about economic
development." Now what is the biggest problem in the African-
American communities today with regard to economic situations?
Lack of jobs! Now. They're not gonna *get* any jobs! Why? Because
Clinton has passed, has rammed through, GATT and NAFTA. And we
have turned the American economy from an economy with 250 million
consumers, into an economy, into a *world* economy, where there
are 5.6 billion consumers, many of whom are earning 19 cents an
hour. And we're gonna ask the African-Americans who don't have
jobs to compete with 19-cents-an-hour labor? It ain't gonna
happen.
So you see, Sherman... The problem today is that GATT and NAFTA
have completely foreclosed any hope for education, for jobs, in
the African-American community. It is *done*. It's over with.
SKOLNICK:
So they're using, insofar as... Well, Mexico was [unclear]
with...
SATO:
But you see, Sherman, that is *why* they have to be panicked
about what's going to happen in the African-American communities
when people finally figure out that there *is* *not* gonna be any
more education, there's *not* gonna be jobs. It's 19 cents an
hour.
SKOLNICK:
All right, let's see if this fits in with your thesis there:
Mexico is principally Indians. People of color. And therefore,
this whole NAFTA thing, to use them as cheap labor: does that fit
into your genocide theory in some way?
SATO:
Sure. NAFTA now... And the people in the State Department want to
lower the population of Mexico from over 60 million to under 20
million.
SKOLNICK:
How?
SATO:
Hey folks, there's a group out there called "Chiapas", which is
gonna start provoking civil war like crazy in Mexico. And they're
going to cause a *tremendous*, devastating war in Mexico which
wipes out over 40 million people.
SKOLNICK:
O.K. So wait a minute. So this uh, your thesis is that this
putting an FBI task force -- according to the September 8th, '94
issue of the *[Chicago] Tribune*, which is right on the front
page: "FBI Task Force Joins City Police to Fight Gangs". That's
their excuse! But *actually*, they're putting the gestapo into
the inner city...
SATO:
..for the purpose of making sure that there is a point at which
the African-American community explodes, and they have to send in
their troops and kill everybody...
SKOLNICK:
Before we run out of time: you also feel that these attacks on
black celebrities are not accidental.
SATO:
No. They're not accidental at all. They have money, they have
influence. The FBI wants to get rid of 'em.
SKOLNICK:
Why?
SATO:
O.J. Simpson. Michael Jordan's father. Michael Jackson.
SKOLNICK:
Why?
SATO:
Because they're [unclear], according to the FBI; they're not
"worthy" of having any position of influence or wealth.
SKOLNICK:
O.K. And since they are now quite wealthy, if they ever became
political -- I'm not saying that O.J. Simpson was or is
political, or Michael Jackson was or is political -- but *were*
they, in a time of the American gestapo running out of control,
they might say something and have to be heard worldwide... among
white people, among people of color. You couldn't shut them up.
If they held a press conference, it'd be covered.
So they're discredited. They're "murderers", they're "child
molesters".
SATO:
Or they're just murdered, period.
SKOLNICK:
Yeah. In other words, because they're well-known they don't want
them as spokesmen for the Afro-American community. Is that the
point?
SATO:
They don't want them as spokesmen for *anybody*.
SKOLNICK:
So, well what you're saying is, whether Mel Reynolds, the
congressman, is or is not a sleazebag as accused, it's
interesting that of *all* the crooked congressmen that they could
think about, they centered on him. That's not accidental, right?
They could find some other congressmen that are equally as
crooked as him.
SATO:
Sure.
SKOLNICK:
Assuming that he's crooked.
SATO:
Well yeah. But that comes down to, "Take a whole handful of darts
and just throw it at the [unclear], and anybody you hit..."
SKOLNICK:
All right, before we run out of time, what suggestion do you
have? You've laid out a very somber thing there. How do we get
into the next century?
SATO:
In my view, there aren't a whole lot of solutions, simply
because...
SKOLNICK:
Well, before we run out of time, give us some.
SATO:
There are certain African-Americans who wish there to be
reparations to the African-Americans because of slavery. That is
not practical for a lot of reasons. It's...
SKOLNICK:
Oh I'm for it if the ultra-rich pay for it!
SATO:
Sherman, that's impractical.
SKOLNICK:
..shouldn't tax the rest of us. The ultra-rich: let them pay!
SATO:
They're not gonna do that unless you "string 'em up".
SKOLNICK:
"String" who up?
SATO:
The super-rich.
SKOLNICK:
The Rockefellers.
SATO:
Yeah. That's not gonna happen.
So the only thing *I* would suggest is a strike. A mortgage
strike.
SKOLNICK:
Well, we're running out of time.
SATO:
..A rent strike.
SKOLNICK:
We're running out of time. And we thank everybody for listening.
We've worried a lot of 'em. People secretly think that maybe we
represent the Tylenol and aspirin industry with these programs
[laughs]. We *do* worry people! But we hopefully cause you to
think.
Thanks for listening, and watch us again on "Broadsides". Good
evening.
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Why King Center Ejected National Park Service
By Dennis Speed
[*New Federalist*, January 9, 1995]
ATLANTA, Dec. 28 (EIRNS) -- Dexter King, son of the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King and the new chairman and chief executive
officer of the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, today
announced that the National Parks Service, previously employed as
tour guides, has been ejected from the King Center. This action
comes as a result of the ongoing dispute between civil rights
activists, including the King family, and the Park Service, which
has announced its intention to build an $11 million Visitors
Center in time for the Olympics, on the site of what the Center
intended to be the location of a museum dedicated to the slain
civil rights leader.
Initially, Coretta King and others had actually lobbied for the
Parks Service involvement in a project in King's honor and
memory. "The NPS (National Park Service) was invited into this
(historic) district by my mother, Coretta Scott King, to be a
tour guide of the King birth home... serving in a support role of
the King Center's programs, mission, and purpose. They began as a
tour guide, but in their dark ambition they have become
landlords. I don't expect any of my beloved neighbors to see
this, because I am ashamed to admit that my family did not see it
until it was too late," said Dexter King.
-+- The NPS and the Klan -+-
Readers of New Federalist newspaper will not be surprised at the
nefarious role attributed by Dexter King to the National Park
Service. In 1993, spokesmen for the NPS, including Gary Scott,
chief historian for the Washington, D.C. District, opposed the
removal of the statue of Ku Klux Klan founder Albert Pike from
Judiciary Square. Scott contended that "there was no evidence
that proved" Pike was a Klansman -- despite evidence gleaned from
members of Pike's family and other Klansmen proving that indeed
he was.
The same Gary Scott has also written a book praising the Kappa
Alpha Society, the official campus recruiting group of the Klan.
J. Edgar Hoover, the late director of the FBI and a chief
opponent of Martin Luther King, was the head of his chapter of
the Kappa Alpha fraternity at George Washington University.
Further, recent revelations in the King assassination,
particularly in Memphis [CN -- suppressed by U.S. media],
implicate the FBI in a coverup of the actual story behind the
King murder.
-+- Why Is NPS Worried? -+-
If the King Center were left free to present a non-doctored,
uncensored view of the civil rights movement, undefined by the
federal government, that view must directly affect every nation
in the world whose nationals attended the 1996 Olympics [in
Atlanta]. With over 100,000 visitors a day expected during the
height of the Olympics, and over 2 billion people expected to
watch some portion of the proceedings, an independent
representation of the facts concerning the King legacy, and the
assassination, would, from the standpoint of interested parties
in the Park Service, need to be controlled -- especially if the
former FBI director, a Kappa Alpha "brother," is implicated in
the murder.
To the end of effecting control, the King family has been
attacked in the pages of the Atlanta Constitution [newspaper] as
"profiteers" who are seeking to "exploit" King's legacy, as
opposed to the "disinterested" National Park Service -- whose
chief historian in Washington [CN -- recently fired] happens to
be a defender of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The Dec. 23 New
York Times reported that Coretta King stated, "It seems that the
same evil forces that killed Martin Luther King are now trying to
destroy his family."
Andrew Young, co-chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games, former mayor of Atlanta, U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, and an aide to King in the civil rights movement,
contended: "In the case of the Parks Department and the King
family, so far the King family has been excluded from full
partnership... The King family has to control the planning and
vision of the project." Young, however, correctly notes that
"this should not be viewed as a partisan political struggle" --
since the King legacy, and not "the King family" -- is the real
target.
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Those consulting King's own writings, such as his last speech to
his Southern Christian Leadership Conference, might find
enlightenment as to what the true issue in this case is. "The
tendency to ignore the Negro's contribution to American life and
to strip him of his personhood is as old as the earliest history
books and as contemporary as the morning's newspaper. To upset
this cultural homicide, the Negro must rise up with an
affirmation of his own Olympian (sic) manhood. Any movement for
the Negro's freedom that overlooks this necessity is only waiting
to be buried."
Dexter King asserted in his remarks to the press, "What we are
witnessing in 1994 is a classical encroachment and annexation of
a people and their history by the federal government in 1996,
through their agent the NPS."
Meetings are expected to occur the first week of January, in
which Congressional and other forces will seek to intervene in
the situation.
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Historical Revisionism, Populism and Monkeys
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[From *The Barnes Review*, January 1995]
*The Barnes Review* is a magazine of revisionist history, meaning
that our aim is to bring history into accord with the facts.
The reader is surely justified in pointing out that history is
supposed to be an account of the facts in the first place. Why
then does history have to be "revised" at all?
The answer to that question is itself a historical law: History
is always written by the winner and never by the loser. That is
to say, the facts that become history are selected, distorted,
suppressed or invented by the historians chosen by the winner to
do the job.
Of course, in the "Western democracies," we are not supposed to
say, or even think, heresy like this. As true believers in the
public mythos, we all know that in "democracies" people are free
and government is above-board and subject to the will of the
voters. Unfortunately, this myth gets more and more difficult to
swallow. At some point, those who are subject to American
democracy, for example, must admit that the word is a placebo
meant to placate and bemuse the taxpayers while the economic and
political establishment does what it damn well wants. If any
documentation for this is needed, please reflect back to last
month when a lame duck Congress joined hands across the aisle and
voted to undermine American sovereignty and accept GATT and the
World Trade Organization, which at least 75 percent of the voters
opposed. Democracy, you say? What, then, is tyranny?
When the communists were in control of Russia and the USSR, the
history of Russia, the USSR and the world was far different from
what it was under the czars and what it is known to be today by
distinguished Russian historians, such as Igor Shafarevich or
Wladimir Soloukhin. Unfortunately, historical distortion is not
confined to foreign nations.
The global plantation envisioned as our future by the
international bankers and their acolytes in the corporate
community and among the herd of international planners they
employ mandates but two classes -- the very rich and their
servants (including their hired intellectuals and historians),
and the very poor without distinction as to race, gender,
nationality or religion.
Thus, if history must be revised in the interest of truth to put
down the mouthpieces of the special interests who would control
our minds, and if populism is correctly defined as statecraft
conducted for the purpose of putting down the special interests
in the broad interest of the public as a whole, then it is
evident that the relationship between revisionist history as an
intellectual discipline and populism as a philosophy of
government is indubitable.
Looking at it from the other end, establishment history and
populism are as incompatible as are revisionism and establishment
politics.
The popular lore of "democracy" also requires that no
conspiracies of the planners exist. Those opposed to the social
order and other criminals may engage in conspiracies but surely
not the sainted democrats. This may be called the good monkey
theory -- hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. The fact
is, at any one time there are virtually as many conspiracies
operating as there are ambitions. The demise of Soviet communism
has not eliminated the conspiracy factor from history.
Unless we are monkeys, we must open our eyes and we will see that
revisionist history requires inquiry into the same areas that
lure populists and are righteously avoided by establishment
politicians, pundits and historians. These areas include the
esoteric world of international banking, the history and nature
of money, enigmatic and seldom-mentioned organizations or
movements, such as the Bilderbergers, the Trilateral Commission,
Grand Orient Freemasonry, Scientology, international political
Zionism and other conspiracies seeking illegitimate power.
Revisionist history must also necessarily seek the forbidden
knowledge of racial and ethnic differences. And perhaps it may
also even brave the feminists and peek into that "little
difference" between men and women.
Of course, to taste these forbidden fruits one must be ready to
confront the establishment, which habitually and historically
always tries to smite down revisionist history and populism.
To be a revisionist, then, one must achieve a level of
intellectual sophistication above that of most Americans who
credulously believe in semantic nonsense, such as "democracy," or
"equality," or "freedom of the press," or even "freedom," terms
which are defined by the enemy: those conspirators who use them
as weapons of intellectual repression and human control.
We trust you agree that it is time for us to remove our hands
from our eyes, ears and lips. It will prepare us to defy our
keepers, escape and survive in the lively months and years to
come.
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I received the following from a CN reader who wishes to remain
anonymous. What I plan to do is post the entire document over a
period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 9.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
(continued)
33. Kessler, Ronald, Inside The CIA, New York, New York, Simon &
Schuster, Inc., 1992. Kessler is an author and award-winning
former investigative reporter. Summary: Documents CIA covert
action to influence or overthrow foreign governments or political
parties; development of eavesdropping devices that work by
zapping laser beams through windows. CIA officials failed to
tell their own boss, the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence),
the truth. "Not that they lied outright; they were too smart for
that. But by telling only half the story, by answering questions
precisely, by not addressing the real intent of [the DCI's]
questions, they had misled him" just as they had misled other
legal bodies of investigation. The DCI found that plans for
covert action were rarely scrutinized formally and their approval
was given informally. CIA misdeeds have been "aided and abetted
by a Congress that shirked its oversight duties." Documents how
the agency moves forward and backward, into and out of illegality
based on who the Director of Central Intelligence is.
Because of the competition between departments, the directorates
of those departments report "to the [DCI] only grudgingly,
fearful that its own turf will be infringed upon or that its
secrets will be shared with the other directorates."
The CIA's past attempt to humiliate Castro "by trying to get his
beard to fall off - something that only someone whose level of
maturity had not advanced beyond kindergarten could have dreamed
up." The CIA "is also secretive - sometimes foolishly so....Even
newspaper clippings have been stamped 'secret.'"
"A 1979 Opinion Research Corporation poll found 24% [of all
Americans] had an unfavorable opinion [of the CIA]....Unfavorable
opinions were highest among Americans who were college educated
and had higher incomes."
"CIA officers must be willing to break the laws of other
countries and lie....The most common form of fraud is when CIA
officers claim they have paid a local agent and actually kept the
money themselves. While agents are required to sign receipts, it
is easy to forge such documents."
The Agency's emphasis and rewarding of quantity, not quality, in
their efforts to recruit foreign spies has led them into
disaster. For example, it was discovered in 1987 that almost
every single spy recruited from Cuba were double agents reporting
back to Castro.
Since the end of the Cold War, higher priority has been given to
economic spying. "The CIA tries, for example, to find out
overseas what kinds of computers the Japanese are
developing....It is something like being able to eavesdrop on a
seller and his broker when negotiating to buy a house."
The CIA commonly meddles in the affairs of other countries, even
to the extent of overthrowing a legally and democratically
elected leader, which is how the U.S. ends up with a reputation
for being imperialistic and hypocritical. "'Defenders of covert
action would say we are fighting to preserve liberty and
democracy and the American way,' said Simmons, a former CIA
officer....'But when you get into the details, you wonder if they
are talking about the same thing. He may be an SOB and a
dictator, but he is our SOB, whereas Arbenz, who was
democratically elected, was not an SOB, but he wasn't ours.'"
A CIA inspector general's report uncovered dozens of attempts to
humiliate and assassinate Castro, which included the aid of Mafia
gangsters Sam Giancana and John Roselli. The CIA also developed
plans to assassinate the head of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, and
attempts to control elections in Chili. They spent $8 million
attempting to mount a military coup against and to prevent the
confirmation of Salvadore Allende's presidential election.
"In principle, I think we ought to discourage the idea of
fighting secret wars or even initiating most covert operations.
When the United States violates those principles - when we mine
harbors in Nicaragua - we fuzz the difference between ourselves
and the Soviet Union," said George Ball, undersecretary of state
in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. "In the last
analysis, covert action has contributed very little to
strengthening the national security of the U.S. If an action is
worth taking, it should be done openly." Covert action allows
the government to pursue unquestioned policy while "avoiding
asking itself the tough questions it would normally ask before
taking action in the open."
Senior CIA officers "keep in touch with chief executive officers
of major corporations in order to place defectors in jobs."
CIA abuses included "programs for opening mail between U.S. and
Soviet-bloc countries and for compiling files on dissident
Americans." The latter program accumulated 13,000 files on 7,200
Americans and "included the names of 300,000 American citizens
and organizations." Most CIA abuses have "been approved by CIA
directors at the time and even attorneys general of the U.S."
Former Agency officers claim they have never engaged in any
covert activity not ordered by the White House, a president or a
cabinet officer.
The CIA "had been providing funds to the National Student
Association." This, of course, "raised suspicions both in the
eyes of foreigners and of Americans that U.S. institutions might
have dual allegiances - one to their directors or trustees and
one to the CIA."
Frank E. Olson committed suicide "after the CIA had given him LSD
without his knowledge." The consequences for those agents
involved were merely a letter of reprimand which was not even
placed in their personnel files. In reference to another abuse,
the illegal imprisonment for three and a half years of Yuri
Nosenko, Colby said, "That frightened me more than anything else,
the idea that an intelligence agency could secretly hold a man in
prison."
One of Richard Bissell's responses indicated CIA arrogance, that
"only CIA officers know what is good for the country. Elected
officials may be the representatives of the people, but they have
no business questioning the judgment of the CIA....The problem is
irresponsible scrutiny. The winks and nods and tacit approval:
'I don't want to hear these things. Don't tell me this. I need
to deny any knowledge.' Yet when an operation goes awry, these
very same people turn on you," said Saunders, a former CIA
officer.
"Today the Directorate of Science and Technology controls billion-
dollar satellites that see through clouds and even buildings with
radar and infrared imaging that senses heat. Other satellites
can intercept conversations of terrorists, trace narcotics
dealers' electronic transfers of money between bank accounts, and
see mobs in places such as Iraq, a machine gun under a tent, and
water or oil under the desert."
"The agency has a disguise capability that no one can touch," a
former OTS officer said.
"Besides administering the finances of the agency, the Office of
Financial Management launders money using dummy corporations and
multiple bank accounts worldwide in order to further the work of
the clandestine side of the agency."
The CIA's Office of Security "illegally wiretapped the telephones
of three newsmen...in order to determine their sources....And
while investigating CIA employees, the Office of Security
illegally conducted twelve break-ins and installed thirty-two
wiretaps and thirty-two bugs." DCI Webster found this Office of
Security to have the most problems, "to be still operating in the
dark ages and most resistant to change." One CIA officer
responsible for training new recruits lectures to them often that
critics of past CIA abuses are "unsophisticated detractors,"
defends the CIA having spied on Americans due to "national
security questions," and that "those who would destroy us and our
efforts were not the Soviets and our other worldwide enemies but
our own elected legislative representatives." Perhaps this CIA
instructor's worst failure is not informing new recruits that "by
subverting the law, the CIA subverts the very freedoms it is
trying to preserve, while failing to achieve its objectives."
"The CIA and other intelligence agencies can try to hide their
mistakes by claiming prosecutions would air secrets that would
compromise the work of the agencies."
"In debugging overseas stations, one of the biggest problems CIA
technicians face is not bugs but insistent requests from
ambassadors to sweep their offices. 'It's a status symbol,' a
former technician said. 'If the chief of station gets his done,
the ambassador wants his done, too.'"
In hiring a new recruit, training officers claim they want
"impeccable character and integrity." Yet, that same recruit
will be asked to "spend much of his or her life living a lie,
pretending to be someone he or she is not...." And, "you have to
have a passion for anonymity."
"Very few people [at the CIA] know the complete picture because
very few are allowed to know it," McGregor said. "That is what
makes it so difficult to get at the whole truth. This is
exacerbated by the fact that so very few feel any loyalty to the
head of the agency. Rather, their loyalties are to the heads of
their divisions or their directorates."
"Operations officers seldom suffered permanent career damage for
poor performance or incompetence, even when agents were killed or
compromised," said former CIA operations officer. They also "did
not understand the need for taking disciplinary action against
those who had violated the trust the agency placed in them" (as
in not telling the truth during the Iran-Contra investigation.
The CIA criticized the DCI for wanting to please Congress and the
public.
The CIA treats "the American press as an adversary" and has a
history of being involved "in the business of trying to suppress
books....Yet smart as [the CIA employees] were, they seemed to
have difficulty understanding why so many people had a negative
impression of what they do."
The CIA has laundered its money at the Nugan Hand Bank, which had
a reputation for taking your money without asking too many
questions. The CIA also used the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International (BCCI).
"It was the CIA's job to break laws, not to follow them. While
the laws that the CIA broke were those of other countries, it was
easy for the distinction between foreign laws and American laws
to be lost."
"Lawrence R. Houston, the agency's first general counsel, helped
draft the law establishing the agency. According to him, the
clause permitting the agency to engage in 'such other functions'
as the NSC directed referred only to intelligence collection, not
to covert action....'All during this drafting of the act, all
during the presentations to congressional committees and debates,
and all during the consideration in Congress, there was no
mention of covert action,' Houston said. 'It was entirely
intelligence....'" It was only later that Houston wrote a legal
opinion that if the president orders it and if Congress funded
it, then the "such other functions" could be stretched to include
covert action.
The author's 1976 request for material from the CIA under the
Freedom of Information Act took more than fourteen years for the
CIA to fulfill.
"The Classified Information Procedures Act of 1980 provides ways
for classified information to be handled by a court without
making it public."
A law suit was filed against the CIA by victims of Dr. D. Ewen
Cameron, who had conducted experiments on psychiatric patients
without their consent. His experiments subjected his patients
"to LSD, electroshock treatment up to 75 times the normal level,
and drug-induced sleep that lasted for weeks." The suit cost
taxpayers $750,000 for the settlement alone."
"Despite [DCI] Webster's best efforts, the Office of Security is
still in the Dark Ages, still prone to overlook legal niceties
and to act in a heavy-handed fashion." The agency still has
difficulty separating what should and shouldn't be kept
legitimate secrets.
"'We still have institutional biases that act as a wet blanket on
judgment,' Thomas Polgar, a former CIA station chief said. 'If
you say there is no more threat from Eastern Europe, that means
somebody's budget is going to be reduced. Self-interest enters
into it.'"
"The secrecy that envelops [the CIA] conflicts with inherent
American values and leads to mistrust. Too many times in the
past, that mistrust has been warranted. And the CIA is often
guilty of arrogance."
"No longer should Americans 'to a degree take it on faith,' as
Richard Helms proposed....The CIA's power can easily be misused
by unscrupulous directors or presidents."
[...to be continued...]
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CODE NAME "ZORRO":
The Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Mark Lane and Dick Gregory
Reviewed by Brian Francis Redman
"1. Why were only two police officers assigned to Dr. King on the
evening of April 4, 1968?"
"2. Why was one of those officers, Redditt, removed so
precipitously two hours before the murder?"
"3. Why were the only two black firemen [assigned to an adjacent
fire station] removed from the scene of the murder the night
before it occurred?"
"4. If Raoul did not provide Ray with funds as Ray claimed, where
did Ray secure the many thousands of dollars that he expended
from the time he escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary until his
arrest in London?"
Once more, as in the JFK assassination, we have too many
unanswered questions, questions that are ignored by those who
ought to be answering them. Instead of answers, the public
receives supercilious smiles and pats on the head from persons
acting to be somehow better than us, we the people, of the United
States.
Here's an interesting fact: our old buddy Rep. Henry Gonzalez,
courageous fighter against the Federal Reserve yet timid as a
mouse when it comes to Whitewater, "...had been in the Dallas
motorcade on November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was
assassinated. Congressman Gonzalez had harbored doubts about the
adequacy of the findings of the Warren Commission. Later he
stated that he was also not satisfied with the official
explanations of the deaths of Dr. King and Senator Robert F.
Kennedy, and the attempted assassination of Governor George
Wallace." (It turns out that Wallace also "wasn't satisfied" as
to the official explanation about the attempt made on his life.
The Associated Press, ca. June 29, 1993, quoted Wallace as saying
that he "doesn't believe the man who shot him was acting alone,"
and asking ol' Billy Jeff from Arkansas to reopen the federal
investigation.)
A lot of questions. "Nine years have passed [ca. 1977] since the
death of Dr. King. The American people have not been given the
details about the pathological hatred that Hoover's FBI betrayed
toward Dr. King. Neither have we been told why the black
witnesses were officially stripped from the scene the night
before the murder nor why the police officer in charge was
removed on an implausible pretext just before the fatal shot was
fired. The witness and security stripping was directed by a
former high-ranking FBI official. Mystery surrounds the failure
of the FBI to seek James Earl Ray until April 19th, fifteen days
after the murder in spite of the presence of the fingerprints on
the presumed murder rifle."
"The bullet taken from Dr. King's body was examined by an FBI
agent whose conclusions raise more questions than they answer.
The bullet has not yet been adequately tested. It may not have
been fired from Ray's rifle."
"The cover-up of facts surrounding the murder, including the
publication of news stories, false information leads to authors
of books and magazine articles, and direct lobbying against a
Congressional investigation by intelligence and spy organizations
requires that we ask what it is that is so feared by so few. And
ask as well how powerful the few must be to influence and control
so much."
Here's another little tidbit which, by itself may not be
overwhelming, but which when added to all the other little
anomalies surrounding this case gives us the sum total of a
flashing sign on a GoodYear blimp saying "...CONSPIRACY....
COVER-UP... CONSPIRACY... COVER-UP...":
Wayne Chastain, now a practicing lawyer in Memphis, was a
reporter for the Memphis *Press Scimitar*, one of the two
major daily newspapers at the time of the assassination of
Dr. King.
After the police concluded that the shot had been fired from
the bathroom window in the rooming house, Chastain came
across an unpublished photograph in the newspaper's files.
Taken by an Associated Press photographer from the bathroom
window, it showed the Lorraine Motel balcony as the sniper
would have seen it if the shot had been fired from there.
Chastain noted that the view was obscured by branches from
trees growing on the embankment between the rooming house and
the motel.
Later that day he discussed that oddity in the case with Kay
Black, another reporter for the Memphis *Press Scimitar*.
Chastain told me that although the picture was puzzling he
paid little attention to it, "because at that time I believed
the shot had come from that window. I believed that the
police were right about that."
Chastain has continued to maintain a growing file on the case
and has talked with many witnesses since. "Now I no longer
believe the shot came from there. Now I think that picture
and those trees take an added significance," he told me.
Later Kay Black received a telephone call from William B.
Ingram, the former mayor of Memphis. Ingram had called to
inform Black that the city was cutting down the trees on the
embankment between the rooming house and the motel. She later
told me, "Now, I hadn't been in the rooming house looking
through that bathroom window but I do recall Wayne Chastain
having said that he didn't see how someone could shoot
through the trees to the motel. He said that he was puzzled
how a clear shot could have been fired because he didn't see
how you could see through the branches."
Ms. Black determined that the city of Memphis had arranged
for the trees to be cut down and had ordered the city
sanitation department to remove them. She said that Ingram
had called her in the morning. She reported the information
to her desk and that afternoon she visited the murder scene.
"And those trees were down. The screen was gone. There was
just no way any longer to know if that shot could have been
possible."
Authorities investigating the assassination relied on two dubious
witnesses, Mrs. Bessie Brewer and Charles Q. Stephens, to place
James Earl Ray in the nearby rooming house between 3:00 and 3:10
p.m. Yet "Mrs. Brewer consistently refused to identify Ray" as
the man to whom she had rented a room there. The other witness,
Stephens, "did not make a positive identification of Ray."
Furthermore, Stephens had "a severe drinking problem. Apparently
he was drunk when the shot that killed Dr. King was fired." His
wife told co-author Lane that "Charlie [Stephens] didn't see
anything. He couldn't have. He was on the bed trying to sleep one
off."
Stephens wife, Grace, was a third witness. But she was silenced.
She heard the shot, then, as she recalls, "Right after the shot a
man left the bathroom and went down the hall and down the steps
to Main Street. I saw the man as he passed the door of my room.
My guess of this man's age was in his fifties. This man was not
quite as tall as I am. He was small-boned built." According to
Grace Stephens, this man had "salt and pepper colored hair."
"At last the Memphis authorities apparently had uncovered a
reliable witness. Yet when Ray was arrested her statement was
inconvenient. Ray was taller than average and Mrs. Stephens had
described a man approximately five feet, five inches tall. Ray
was well-built and muscular and she described a small-boned man.
Ray was in his thirties and she described a man twenty years
older."
So how was she silenced? "Grace Stephens was illegally taken from
her home by other Memphis authorities and placed in a mental
institution... After Mrs. Stephens was illegally placed in the
mental institution, the Memphis prosecutors removed her records
from the hospital, according to her lawyer, C. M. Murphy."
"Murphy also charged that his client had no history of mental
illness and that she was able to care for herself. He said that
the Memphis prosecuting attorneys committed her to safeguard
their case against Ray."
"In 1970, two years after Mrs. Stephens was committed, Murphy
brought an action for her release. A reporter for the *Washington
Post* who attended the hearing said that Mrs. Stephens, 'was
heavily sedated' and that she 'stared blankly.' He reported as
well that 'attorneys say that ordinarily she is bright,
articulate, and reads a great deal and that she completed three
years of college.'"
Grace Stephens was not released and "remains at the institution
now [ca. 1977]."
"Mrs. Stephens has not recanted. When she was visited at the
institution where she is confined she was asked if she remembers
what she saw on April 4, 1968. She answered with a sad smile, 'Oh
yes. I remember what I saw and who I saw run away. That's why I'm
here, you know.'"
So we now near the federally-designated MLK HolyDay. As Dave
Emory has sadly pointed out:
...when you allow a man to be murdered with impunity, when
you allow a man to take a bullet, [when] you will not show
*any* substantive interest in who did the killing -- when the
people who did the killing are a matter of public record!
(And we *know* who did it.) -- it's grotesque. I think it's
really grotesque to name a holiday after somebody, celebrate
a holiday after somebody, when you can't, when you *won't*,
look into someone's murder.
It is like that line from I think it was T.S. Eliot: "And death
walks, grinning, in the parade." The MLK HolyDay is that day when
the *federales* display their trophy, Martin Luther King's head
mounted on 24-hours in time. As Frederick Tupper Sausee writes in
the afterword of *Tennessee Waltz* by James Earl Ray: "It is not
King's life that they celebrate, but his death. King's death is
their handiwork, and they display it proudly."
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The Crash of United Flight 553
[Excerpted from *Defrauding America* by Rodney Stich]
A United Boeing 737 crashed into a Chicago residential area
(December 8, 1972) during an approach, killing everyone on board,
including the wife of Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt. She was
reportedly carrying money to silence Watergate witnesses, and
carried papers implicating President Richard Nixon in the
coverup. A Chicago public-interest group, know as the Citizens
Committee [to Clean Up the Courts] {1} believed that Justice
Department personnel played a role in the crash of United flight
553, and that they wanted key individuals on flight 553
exterminated. Twelve of the people who boarded United Flight 553
had something in common relating to questionable Justice
Department and Watergate activities.
There had been a gas pipeline lobbyist meeting as part of the
American Bar Association in Washington, D.C., conducted by Roger
Morea. Among the lobbyists attending were attorneys for the
Northern Natural Gas Company of Omaha; attorneys for Kansas-
Nebraska Natural Gas Company; and [the] president of the Federal
Land Bank in Omaha. The Citizens Committee portrayed these people
as a group determined to blow the lid off the Watergate case.
For many years Chicago resident Lawrence O'Connor boarded flight
553 like clockwork. He had no Watergate connections, but he had
friends in the White House. On this particular Friday, O'Connor
supposedly received a call from someone he knew in the White
House, strongly advising him not to take flight 553. The caller
advised him to go to a special meeting instead of taking that
flight {2}. Whether this was coincidental or to save his life is
unknown to me [i.e. author, Rodney Stich], although the Citizens
Committee considers it significant.
U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, later indicted and sent to
federal prison, and the Justice Department were putting pressure
on Northern Natural Gas. The firm had subsidiaries that the
federal government indicted on federal criminal charges in Omaha,
Chicago, and Hammond, Indiana. (September 7, 1972.) Justice
Department charges included bribery of local officials in
Northwest Indiana and Illinois, to get clearance for installing
the pipeline through their state. {3}.
Allegedly to blackmail the Justice Department and cause them to
drop the charges, the Omaha firm uncovered documents showing that
Mitchell, while attorney general in 1969, dropped antitrust
charges against a competitor of Northern Natural Gas -- El Paso
Natural Gas Company. Just before the crash, Carl Kruger, an
official with Northern Natural Gas Company, had been browbeating
federal officials to drop the criminal charges. {4}.
The Citizens Committee alleged that dropping these charges saved
the utility 300 million dollars. Simultaneously, Mitchell
purchased through a law partner a stock interest in El Paso
Natural Gas Company. Gas and oil interests, including El Paso,
Gulf Resources, and others, contributed heavily to Nixon's spy
fund supervised by Mitchell. The Citizens Committee reported that
Kruger had previously been warned he would never live to reach
Chicago. Kruger carried these revealing documents on United
Flight 553, telling his wife that he had irreplaceable papers of
a sensitive nature in his possession. For months after the crash
Kruger's widow demanded that United Airlines turn his briefcase
over to her.
CBS news reporter Michelle Clark travelled with Mrs. Hunt, doing
an exclusive story on Watergate. Ms. Clark had already gained
considerable insight into the bugging and coverup through her
boyfriend, a CIA operative. Others knew of this exclusive
interview, including the Justice Department.
According to some media articles, Dorothy Hunt conveyed offers of
executive clemency with the financial payoffs to some of the
Watergate defendants. Mrs. Hunt reportedly also sought to leave
the United States with over two million dollars in cash and
negotiables that she obtained from CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect
the President).
Early in December 1972, Dorothy Hunt and her husband threatened
to blow the lid off the White House if Hunt wasn't freed of the
criminal charges and if they both didn't get several million
dollars. {5}. Hunt claimed, according to McCord, to have evidence
necessary to impeach Nixon. McCord said matters were coming to a
head early in December 1972. Dorothy Hunt was unhappy about
bribing defendants and witnesses, and wanted out of the mess.
The Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts reported that over
a hundred FBI agents were inexplicably in the area when the plane
crashed, and that the FBI kept a medical team out of the crash
zone. One member of the medical team said he heard someone in the
crashed plane screaming for help. {6}. Witnesses near the airport
reported that the FBI agents were there before the fire
department arrived. Something highly irregular appeared to be
going on, involving the Department of Justice.
In *Secret Agenda*, author Jim Hougan makes reference to this
intrigue and the request to the FBI by Michael Stevens (who
supplied bugging devices to James McCord, allegedly under
authority of the CIA) for protection. Stevens claimed he was to
receive part of the money Mrs. Hunt was carrying, that his life
had been threatened, and that he believed Mrs. Hunt's death had
been a homicide.
-+- More Political Intrigue? -+-
The day after Flight 553 crashed, the White House appointed White
House aide Egil (Bud) Krogh, Jr. to the post of Under-Secretary
of Transportation, which controlled the FAA [Federal Aviation
Administration] role in the investigation. His qualifications?
Krogh was involved in the Ellsberg burglary caper and was part of
the White House Plumbers group. In his new position Krogh had an
important safety role supervising, or muzzling, the NTSB
[National Transportation Safety Board] and the FAA. He could
exert political influence over the NTSB investigation through the
politically appointed NTSB Board members who establish the
official probable cause of the crash.
Further control over the air safety process was demonstrated ten
days later. On December 19, 1972 the White House appointed
Nixon's deputy assistant and secretary to the Cabinet, Alexander
Butterfield, former CIA aviation liaison officer, to head the
FAA. {7}. The officials controlling the FAA, the NTSB, and the
Department of Transportation had political loyalties to the White
House. At the initial NTSB crash investigation hearings (February
1973), White House Appointment Secretary Dwight Chapin reportedly
threatened media people with reprisals if they mentioned
sabotage. These political appointees could influence matters
affecting the nation's air safety.
-+- United's Connections In Government -+-
Five weeks after the crash, Nixon's appointment secretary, Dwight
Chapin, became a top executive with United Air Lines in the
Chicago home office, even though he had no previous business
experience. Before the crash, Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal
attorney, had been an attorney for United Air Lines.
Those federal officials were capable of carrying out reprisals
against the news media through Clay Whitehead, Nixon's
communication czar. The breakup of the networks on antitrust
charges was always lurking in the wings. Threats of IRS
harassment, Justice Department prosecution for vague federal
offenses, fabricated charges, and news handouts, all played a
part in government control of the news media.
-+- Never In Living Memory -+-
Supporting the fact that these irregular actions occurred, NTSB
chairman John Reed testified before the House Government
Activities Subcommittee on January 13, 1973, concerning Justice
Department interference with the NTSB's investigative duties.
Reed testified that he sent a letter to the FBI, claiming that
never had the FBI acted as they had in this crash. Reed said
fifty FBI agents came into the crash zone shortly after the
crash, assuming the duties assigned by law to the NTSB.
The FBI confiscated the Midway Control Tower tape relating to
Flight 553, interfering with the NTSB investigation. The FBI
conducted twenty-six interviews, including the surviving flight
attendants, obstructing the NTSB's safety responsibilities.
At the original NTSB accident hearings, Board members refused to
consider the documentation and testimony provided by the Citizens
Committee relating to suspicious FBI activities. The NTSB
reopened the hearings after the [Citizens] Committee sued the
NTSB (June 13, 14, 1973). Over thirteen hundred pages of
documentation were produced by the group and many witnesses were
brought forward, establishing the obstruction of the accident
investigation by the FBI. The final NTSB report ignored the
[Citizens] Committee's testimony and evidence.
The Citizens Committee alleged that a gang known as the Sarelli
group came into possession of the highly sensitive documents
carried by Mrs. Hunt. This discovery was made after the arrest of
gang members on January 12, 1973, for an unrelated robbery. {8}.
The Nixon Strike Force in Chicago prosecuted the case against the
Sarelli mob. What they didn't know was that their star witness
against the gang was a staff investigator on the Citizens
Committee, Alex Bottos, Jr.
[...]
--------------------------<< Notes >>----------------------------
{1} Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South
Oglesby, Chicago, Illinois 60617.
{2} Report by Citizens Committee.
{3} *Chicago Daily News*, September 8, 1972.
{4} *Chicago Tribune*, May 18, 1973.
{5} See Memo of Watergate spy, James McCord, before the Ervin
Committee. (*New York Times*, 5/9/73).
{6} Testimony offered at the NTSB (National Transportation Safety
Board) hearing on June 13 and 14, 1973.
{7} Jack Anderson's column, *Chicago Daily News*, 5/8/73.
{8} U.S. Magistrate Balog's records, 72-41, U.S. Courthouse,
Chicago.
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THE STRANGE CAREER OF JOHN F. PARKER
Synopsis based on chapter of same title in *Why Was Lincoln
Murdered?* by Otto Eisenschiml (New York: Halcyon House, 1937)
[CN --To begin, the connection between Parker and the White House
seems to have been Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Details as
to this particular will appear further below.]
"Parker was born on May 19, 1830, in Frederick County, Virginia.
He later became a carpenter in the city of Washington, and
enlisted in the army shortly after the outbreak of the [civil]
war. When the Metropolitan Police Force was organized in
September 1861, he became one of its first patrolmen."
"About a year after joining the Force, he was charged with
conduct unbecoming an officer and with the use of violent, coarse
and insolent language... Parker took personal offense [at remarks
made by a superior to a fellow officer,] thinking that the
remarks had reference to himself. In clearing the case, the
Police Board found that Parker had shown a disposition to be
insubordinate. 'The language he used,' says the report, 'was
exceedingly violent and disrespectful, and, if permitted to be
continued, must lead to insubordination.'... [Parker] was
reprimanded and transferred to another precinct."
"On March 16, 1863, Parker again found himself before the Police
Board, charged with willful violation of the rules and
regulations, and with conduct unbecoming an officer. This time he
was accused not only of having used highly offensive language...
but also of having visited a house of prostitution... It was
stated that he had been intoxicated, that he had been put to bed,
and that he had fired a pistol through the window."
"Parker once more ran afoul of the police regulations only a
fortnight later. This time he was accused of being found asleep
on a street car when he should have been walking his rounds..."
"Scarcely three months passed before Parker had to appear before
the Police Board again." He had been charged with using insulting
language to a lady who had tried to lodge a complaint.
Then, strangely enough, in April 1865, a request was made in his
behalf that he be detailed for duty at the White House.
Most other White House guards had "been picked from the ranks of
the oldest police officers of Washington, and, so far as the
files show, they were among the best behaved and the most
respected members of the Force... How then, did a man of John F.
Parker's character find his way into this select company?"
The mystery deepens: "Parker was chosen for his duty as bodyguard
by none other than President Lincoln's own wife... What prompted
the wife of the President to make this unusual request in behalf
of an obscure and mediocre patrolman like Parker will probably
remain a moot question."
[CN -- Moot to an extent. It is doubtful that Mrs. Lincoln would
have requested Parker on her own initiative. How would she have
known Parker? Why would she have bothered having him transferred
to the White House even if she had somehow become acquainted with
him? From my knowledge of Mrs. Lincoln, she was much more
interested in the latest fashions and in social occasions.
I consider it more likely that some "power behind the scenes"
persuaded Mrs. Lincoln that Parker should be appointed.]
"Historians have touched but lightly on the fact that [President
Lincoln] was accompanied by an armed bodyguard [Parker] on the
night of his assassination... [Parker's] orders were to stand at
the entrance of the box [at Ford's Theater] and to permit no
unauthorized person to enter it..."
Parker at first stayed at his assigned post. But then his
curiosity got the better of him and he wandered away in order to
catch a glimpse of the play, "Our American Cousin"! [Cf. *The
Lincoln Conspiracy* by David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier,
Jr.] During the intermission, Parker went downstairs to a nearby
tavern for some drinks. From this point until his being shot,
Lincoln had no assigned bodyguard. His back was totally
unprotected when John Wilkes Booth crept up behind him and fired
the fatal shot.
"What Parker did immediately after the assassination has not been
definitely ascertained." He showed up at police headquarters at 6
a.m.
"Even those only superficially acquainted with the history of the
Civil War period would probably surmise that this policeman,
guilty of criminal neglect while on important duty, was promptly
court-martialed and executed. Stanton was in complete control of
the situation and, without Lincoln's gentler hands to stay him,
one would have expected the austere Secretary of War to make sure
that the delinquent officer was summarily dealt with."
"But Stanton did exactly nothing. Parker was not shot; nor was he
court-martialed. He not only kept his life, he also kept his
position. He was not reprimanded, not dismissed, not even
immediately relieved of his White House appointment. This
inexplicable failure on the part of the authorities to act
brought forth no burst of indignation from the populace. It
elicited no diligent research among questioning newspapermen..."
"Mrs. Lincoln herself believed that Parker was involved in the
conspiracy to murder her husband."
Parker was transferred back to his regular police beat. On
November 22, 1865 a complaint was filed against Parker for
unbecoming conduct.
Finally, after being found asleep on his beat he was discharged
from the Force on August 13, 1868, for "gross neglect of duty."
"Parker's last offense was perhaps the least important one among
his many infringements... Yet the official axe fell promptly and
relentlessly..."
"A few weeks prior to Parker's dismissal, Secretary of War
Stanton had finally been ousted from his position, and had
returned to private life."
[CN -- So, the Stanton connection: there are two connections
here.
1) Why wasn't Parker court-martialed for deserting his post?
There was a civil war on and Washington, DC was under martial
law. Stanton, normally very strict, did nothing.
2) Parker was routinely getting in trouble with his superiors
yet received no substantive punishment. *Then*, with Stanton (his
protector? part of the plot, along with Parker?) gone, Parker is
almost immediately fired for a relatively minor offense.]
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FROM THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (LONDON), 15 JAN. 1995
WHITE HOUSE SUICIDE - WAS THE BODY MOVED?
BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD IN WASHINGTON
THE SCOPE of the inquiry into the mysterious death of the top White House
aide Vincent Foster has suddenly been broadened, casting doubt on the
original verdict of suicide.
It has now emerged that Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel
investigating the Whitewater affair, which concerns alleged shady
business deals linked to President Clinton and his wife, summoned several
police officers before a Grand Jury late last week.
During the meeting he took the unusual step of reading them the statutory
definition of perjury. The officers were grilled on the precise
circumstances surrounding the discovery of Foster's body in a Virginia
park in July 1993.
The cause of death of Foster, an intimate friend of the Clintons, had
been considered settled by most observers in Washington. An inquiry by
Robert Fiske, the former independent counsel who was later replaced by a
panel of judges, endorsed the police conclusion that Foster shot himself
in the mouth. He attributed the suicide to depression unrelated to the
Whitewater property dealings of the Clintons.
However, Mr Fiske did not convene a Grand Jury for that part of his
investigation. This was considered strange by many legal experts. The
rescue workers and park police who found the body did not testify under
oath, and Mr Fiske essentially confined himself to a review of their
report rather than conducting a full-scale probe of his own.
The grand jury questioning last week, which took place in secret,
appeared to focus on the precise location of Foster's body in the park.
One of the police officers was overheard reassuring a grand juror in the
lobby that he would bring a map to assist testimony the next day.
The seemingly minor issue of where the body was found could turn out to
be of critical importance. A journalist for the *Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review*, Chris Ruddy, has been fighting a lone crusade for
several months seeking to establish that the Park Police misreported the
location of the body.
Ruddy is convinced that it is the key to exposing a cover-up that
allegedly involves the police, the White House, and even elements of the FBI.
If Ruddy is right, it suggests a political scandal of colossal proportions.
On Thursday, an article by Ruddy in the *Tribune-Review* alleged
sloppiness in the Fiske investigation and argued that key witnesses may
have given false testimony.
His latest revelation is that Dr Donald haut, the Virginia medical
examiner who viewed the scene of the crime on the night of Foster's
death, said the body was 10 to 20 yards past an old civil war cannon, the
first cannon in the park.
This is in direct contradiction to the Fiske Report, which said that the
body was at the foot of a second cannon deep inside the park. The
testimony of Dr Haut, who said he was never questioned by the Fiske
investigation, corroborates early statements by a Fairfax County rescue
worker, George Gonzalez, and several other sources who all said the body
was in tangled undergrowth near the first cannon.
The Ruddy article was republished as a full-page advertisement in the
*Washington Times* on Friday, paid for by a conservative media watchdog
in California called the Western Journalism Center. Both Ruddy and the
Center are already being sued for libel by the Park Police, who insist
that their report was accurate.
Questions about Foster's death have been a staple of radio talk shows
across America. According to extensive interviews conducted by *The
Sunday Telegraph*, suspicions are also shared by some members of the
Foster family and parts of the FBI.
Senator Lauch Faircloth, a Republican member of the Banking Committee
that held brief hearings into Foster's death last July, has also raised
doubts about the suicide verdict.
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THE SPREAD, MEXICO, THE PESO, AND SILENCE
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In Conspiracy Nation Volume 1 Number 12, mention was made by the
estimable gentlemen, the monsieurs Mueth and Estabrook, of
something called "the spread".
MUETH: But what *I* thought was happening -- and then I heard
from a person from NPR [National Public Radio]. I forget who
it was, but it was on the nightly business report on
Thursday. What really was going on was keeping the "spread"
wide. The "spread" is historically high, uh, 3 percent,
roughly, I think.
ESTABROOK: You should say what we mean by the "spread" here.
That's the difference between the *real* interest rate -- the
difference, basically, between what banks are lending money
at and what they're paying for the money themselves.
In Volume 1 Number 12 I went on to give my own attempt at an
explanation of "the spread".
[CN Editor -- In other words, the Fed loans money to the
banks at 3 percent interest. If the banks then charge
customers, say, 4 percent to borrow this money, the "spread"
is the difference between the two rates of 3 and 4 percent: 1
percent. If the spread is high (e.g. the bankers do not pass
on the Fed's lower rates to their customers), the banks make
more profit on the money they lend.]
So the banks made some big bucks.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Money Masters May Have Gone Too Far
[Excerpts from *The Spotlight*, 1/16/95]
To bail out Wall Street's foundering megabanks, Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan secretly looted millions of small savings
accounts and retirement incomes in 1991-1993, accumulating
evidence -- first unearthed by *The Spotlight* -- has now
conclusively confirmed.
New documentation has come to light, presenting ordinary
Americans, acting individually or in class action suits, with a
historic opportunity to press charges of fraud, malfeasance and
racketeering against the Fed and its manipulative chairman.
The opportunity arose on New Year's Day when the *New York Times*
finally revealed, for the first time, that beginning in late 1990
"The Fed and its chairman engineered a prolonged period of
falling interest rates." Their sole purpose was "to save the
American banking system" which was "reeling."
Business writer Allen Sloan, a leading Wall Street market-
watcher, confirmed the same fact in his column the same day:
"Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan drove short-term
rates to ultra-low levels in the early 1990s to bail out the
banking industry, setting off a wave of wild speculation that's
still causing trouble," Sloan disclosed.
[...]
To refill the banks' leaking vaults, the Fed gave them vast cash
injections -- tens of billions of dollars -- disguised as short-
term credits at minimal rates around three percent. Then the Fed
borrowed the same money back from the banks at sharply higher
long-term rates. It was a thinly disguised taxpayer bailout...
Small, loyal depositors got a raw deal, too. Used to receiving
around six or seven percent interest on their savings, they saw
their modest incomes shrink under Greenspan's hammer -- often by
half or more. The Fed's moves plunged millions of older Americans
below the poverty line in 1991-1993.
[...]
[According to Dr. Paul Adler,] "The result was that ordinary
Americans ended up paying painfully for yet another giant bank
bailout, both as taxpayers and as savers -- and never even knew
it."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Once again the formula had been capitalism for profits,
socialism for losses."
Conspiracy for the Day -- November 1, 1993
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mexico Round 2 of Profit Grab
[Excerpts from *The Spotlight*, 1/23/95]
[...]
It heartened the speculators to know that they had a determined
protector -- in reality, a co-conspirator -- at the Fed. The game
of debt-financing, currency arbitration, price-fixing, corporate
takeovers and artful fraud expanded into Mexico and beyond, into
a number of so-called "emerging markets," knowledgeable observers
say.
"U.S. speculators realized that trade and investments in smaller
and poorer nations was a lot easier to manipulate," explained Dr.
Paul Adler, the noted economic consultant. "To move in on Mexico,
all they needed was a pliable president who spoke their language,
[CN -- presumably either "Yalie" Clinton or "Yalie" Salinas de
Gotari] and a 'makeover' -- a major promotion that would give the
Mexican markets the gloss of stability and sophistication that
invited foreign investment."
[...]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Now Commander Billy Jeff has opened what they are calling a "$40
billion line of credit" to Mexico. What this means to me is that
$40 billion that could have been spent here in the United States
is going, instead, to *Mexico Lindo*.
Where is the $40 billion "line of credit" coming from? They don't
say.
Is the $40 billion "line of credit" going to appear out of thin
air? They don't tell us.
Gee, will this $40 billion "line of credit" ultimately come out
of our pockets? These questions aren't even being asked.
Let's run down the game so far:
1) 1980s -- S&Ls robbed by S&L owners. We pay for it.
2) 1990-1991 -- Banks in trouble. We bail them out and *we*
*don't* *even* *know* we bailed them out!
3) 1993 -- Nobody wants NAFTA. Commander Billy Jeff opens up the
U.S. Treasury and buys the votes he needs. We, the taxpayers,
have paid for NAFTA even though we don't want it.
4) 1995 -- Mexican Peso collapses. Commander Billy Jeff orders a
$40 billion "line of credit" be opened for Mexico; i.e. he
sends $40 billion of our money to Mexico. I read the papers
and I see no questions being asked. For example: (1) Where is
the $40 billion coming from? (2) Why do *we* have to pay $40
billion to bail out their peso? (3) *Who* will lose money if
we decide *not* to bail out their peso? (4) Why isn't the
*laissez-faire* option being considered? The option of letting
Mexico handle its own peso crisis isn't even being considered.
We are being given the "choice" of either (a) bail out the
peso or (b) bail out the peso. Why not (c) hang on to our
money 'cause we need it here!?
Once again we are getting screwed and nothing is being said.
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THE GENTEEL WAY OF THE BANKER
[Excerpts from a chapter of the same name in *The Screwing of the
Average Man* by David Hapgood (Garden City: Doubleday, 1974)]
[CN -- Note that the author relies on the word "man" to refer to
men and women. I hope too great offense is not taken.]
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During the first third of the century bankers were often
synonymous with robber barons. [J.P. Morgan] left us such
industrial giants as U.S. Steel and AT&T. Morgan created these
and other corporate gold mines by using his capital to destroy
competition and bring one industry after another under the
control of one, or at most a handful of companies.
[Bankers have come to play the role of] faithful guardians of the
national economy, with such urges as their profit motive kept
discreetly under wraps. As John Kenneth Galbraith remarked, "If
anybody else is lobbying for a higher price, we take for granted
that they want more dough, but if a banker is lobbying for higher
interest rates, this is pure unadulterated righteousness.
Everybody else says they want more money, but let David
Rockefeller speak for higher interest rates and, boy, that's
statesmanship."
[Banks depend on our] almost total ignorance of things financial
to pull off some of the most outrageous, but always genteel,
screwings of them all. The genius of these bank heists is that
they never tamper with the principal, they just keep developing
new and better ways to avoid paying interest on it.
These days checking accounts are probably the bank swindle that
touches us the most directly. It is a rare soul who finds
anything odd in the way he is paying the bank ten cents a check
so the bank can lend out his money at 10 percent interest. And
those of us who thought we were outsmarting the game in signing
up for free checking by maintaining a minimum balance, say $500,
are in equally bad straits. Unless you are the sort who tries to
buy candy from vending machines by writing a check, you are
foregoing far more in lost interest on the $500 than you could
possibly save on the free checking.
Although the amount of an individual's loss is still not
breathtaking, interest-free checking accounts are perhaps the
biggest things banks have going for them. On any given day,
commercial banks -- the only ones allowed to handle checking
accounts -- are holding $200 billion in checking account money.
This amounts to 40 percent of these banks' assets and they don't
have to pay a penny of interest to use it. At 10 percent, the
bank customers are losing a total of $20 billion a year.
In the theoretical free market, competition would soon force all
banks to pay interest, or lose their checking accounts to the
more aggressive fellow across the street. But here's where the
federal government, that guardian of the free enterprise system,
comes in. Banks are protected from the rigors of competition by a
series of federal laws which produce monopoly behavior without
the inconvenience of actually creating a monopoly... The
government's role in the operation is also a perfect way to
deflect criticism from the banks, who are reaping the benefits...
If you complained to your local banker, he would patiently
explain that the decision was not made by him...
Although the thrill of the daring daylight bank robbery has
appealed to the American psyche since the heyday of Jesse James,
most bank-inflicted screwings have all the drama of a TV dinner.
Gentility is the watchword and most bank hustles are impeccably
legal, abstract and rather boring -- like the bankers
themselves... The swindles directly affecting the customer are
little noticed because the loss to the individual is small and,
because of their complexity, they are hard to detect. The big
swindles [CN -- e.g. the $40 billion "line of credit" to Mexico],
which invariably involve the government, do not arouse public
indignation because, though the swindle is obvious, it is far
from clear who is being taken by whom...
The perils of competition are held at bay by the difficulty of
getting into the banking business. Although opening a medium-
sized bank often requires less capital than starting a chain of
pizza parlors, you need considerably more to become a banker than
the requisite capital and the yen to close down operations at 3
p.m. every afternoon. The sine qua non to go into banking is a
charter, issued either by your state banking commissioner or the
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. This is just another area where
the government shelters banking from the normal rigors of a
competitive economy. According to free enterprise theory such
decisions as starting a business are made by the investors, those
with money to lose, but when it comes to banking these decisions
are placed in the hands of the government regulators.
The criteria for getting a charter are pretty foggy, but
political clout generally helps on the state level. For the more
prestigious federal charters, the major criterion is a guarantee
that your bank won't hurt any existing banks. You not only have
to prove that your banking won't cause any other bank to fail,
but also that you won't even cause a dip in their profit margins.
Your clients will all be new ones: those who have just moved into
the area... Reduced to its simplest, this means that in an era of
zero population growth there would be no new banks.
The key phrase in all of this is "overbanking." Although never
precisely defined, it appears to refer to a competitive situation
where banks are forced to start offering free checking and a few
of the more aggressive units start grumbling loudly that they
want to pay interest on checking accounts, as well, to attract
even more deposits... Unhealthy competition was... on the
regulatory mind when an application for a bank charter on Key
Biscayne island, where the only bank is run by Charles G. (Bebe)
Rebozo [CN -- one of Nixon's buddies], was denied by the U.S.
Comptroller.
Regulators also screen banking personnel, not the $115-a-week
tellers, but the Ivy League vice-presidents, looking for those
most likely to launder money for the mob. Of course, laundering
money in the name of public service elicits quite a different
response from banking regulators. Some of the Mexican money that
paid for the Watergate burglary originally came from a
Minneapolis businessman, Dwayne Andreas, who shortly thereafter
received a federal charter to be the only banker in a giant new
shopping center in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Most applicants for a
bank charter are supposed to exude qualities like "character" and
"integrity."...
Once you have gained entry to the banking business, the water's
fine. As in any monopoly, the profits are high, the stress is
low, and the risk of loss is minimal... It is also getting harder
for the average man to get the fruits of those profits through
the corporate income tax, for the banks, while making more money,
have managed to reduce the amount they have to pay in taxes --
their effective tax rate, 38 percent in 1961, was down to 17
percent by 1972.
Government helps the banks help themselves in other ways as well.
Take the government's habit of leaving federal funds in interest-
free bank accounts... Following the laws of physics, these
deposits gravitate to those banks that already weigh the most. A
1972 House Banking Committee study found that just 102 big banks
hold 43 percent of these no-interest funds. And the largest
account is, not surprisingly, at David Rockefeller's Chase
Manhattan, followed by another Rockefeller bank, First National
City.
[...]
The banks put the government's money to good use -- with the
government itself. Banks invest much of that $6 billion in
interest-free federal deposits in U.S. Treasury bills,
[CN -- As I recall, they did this again just recently, when
the Fed dramatically lowered interest rates and the banks
then (instead of lending the money to you or I) put the money
into government bonds. In other words, the banks were getting
money from the Fed at 3 percent, then investing that money in
government bonds paying something like 6 percent. The banks
"made out like bandits".]
on which the government was paying, at this writing, about 8
percent. Thus, incredibly, the government is paying the bank 8
percent in order to borrow back the government's own money. From
the bank's point of view, it is collecting 8 percent for passing
the money from one government pocket to another.
[...]
It is not surprising that Uncle Sam is rather reticent about his
banking policies. Almost all government files on the granting of
bank charters, for example, are off limits because, in the words
of a former acting Comptroller General, "We don't want anyone to
come in here on a fishing trip."
The national debt, as it is now managed by the government, is
another vast bonanza for the banks, and an equally large disaster
for the average man. Since 1953, the government has allowed banks
to buy a piece of the national debt... Congressman Wright
Patman... believes that letting the banks in on the national debt
has cost the public from $350 to $500 billion since 1953. Part of
this is billed indirectly to the average man, in higher taxes to
finance the higher interest rates his government has to pay. Part
of it hits him indirectly -- in mortgages at 8.5 percent, as of
this writing, almost twice the pre-1953 rate, and in higher
interest on all his other forms of borrowing... The government
has managed the national debt in such a way as to maximize bank
profits and add to the interest costs to the general public...
Hardly anyone protests, or even notices, the handling of the
national debt, though the impact on the public is obvious. ITT
makes headlines when it raids the government, while the banks go
on quietly picking up much larger booty. This is the genius of
banking: the bankers take us in ways that are discreet,
complicated, legal and boring...
The national debt swindle is far too abstract, too lacking in
drama or obvious villains, to stick in most people's minds. The
government's subsidizing of banks with interest-free accounts is
a model of discretion. No taxpayer's money is actually delivered
to the banks; there is no budget item reading "bank subsidy." The
government merely fails to collect from the banks, and nowhere in
its accounts is there a listing for "failed to collect from
banks: $400 million." The hustling of the client is done by
rules... so well established that they are rarely questioned. The
treatment is administered in a spirit of sober responsibility;
there are no used car dealers in this business. If you don't mind
being considered dull, banking may be the best way to do it.
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MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX
By Nicholas A. Guarino
[List of victims from pamphlet]
Victim #1: On September 26, 1993, Luther "Jerry" Parks enjoyed a
nice dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Little Rock.
On the way home, his car was forced to a stop and he was mowed
down by unfriendlies with nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistols.
The coroner pulled nine bullets from Jerry's body. I believe we
can safely rule out suicide on this one. And it doesn't sound
like your standard drive-by shooting, either. In fact, witnesses
claim the hit man was a former state trooper who was very close
to Bill Clinton.
Jerry was the owner of American Contract Services, which supplied
the guards for Clinton's presidential campaign and transition
headquarters. (Clinton still owed him $81,000.) So he knew a lot
about Clinton's comings and goings.
As a matter of fact, Jerry had quietly been compiling a major
study of Clinton's sexual affairs for about six years. Not
quietly enough, though. Shortly before his demise, his home was
broken into and the study's backup files -- filled with photos
and names -- were stolen, according to his widow, Jane... after
the security alarm was skilfully cut. Nothing else was taken.
His big mistake: "He threatened Clinton," Jane said, "saying he'd
go public if he didn't get his $81,000." And then came the end.
The *London Sunday Telegraph* quoted Jerry's son Gary, 23,
stating the obvious: "...they had my father killed to save Bill
Clinton's political career."
After a long investigation, Little Rock police detective Sergeant
Clyde Steelman gave his character endorsement: "The Parks family
aren't lying to you."
But unless you live in Arkansas, you probably never heard about
Jerry Parks. If you lived in London (or Nairobi or Hong Kong) you
would know more. Whitewater and other Clinton scandals are a
*far* bigger story overseas. Many foreign observers feel the
Whitewater coverup is the biggest one in the world in fifty or
sixty years.
[...]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #2: You must understand the central fact about the
Whitewater Development Corporation: It was *not* the main crime.
Whitewater was only a pretext set up by Jim McDougal and the
Clintons to milk millions of dollars from the SBA [Small Business
Administration], banks, Arkansas Development Finance Authority,
and Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan (which was later bailed out
by us taxpayers to the tune of $65 million).
The Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC] people eventually figured
out that their investigation of Madison wasn't getting anywhere
because it was based in Kansas City, where Clinton's people
stymied it. So Jon Parnell Walker, a Senior Investigation
Specialist in the RTC's Washington office, began a campaign to
get the case moved to DC.
Soon after, Jon was looking over a possible new apartment in
Lincoln Towers in Arlington, Virginia, when reportedly he
suddenly decided to climb over the balcony railing and jump.
Jon's friends, family, and co-workers all agree on one fact: This
man was *not* depressed. Maybe he was just impulsive.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #3: You remember the name Danny Ferguson. He is the
Arkansas patrolman who once said he brought Paula Jones to Bill
Clinton's hotel room.
Kathy, 38, his wife at the time, blabbed a lot about such things.
She often told friends and co-workers about how Bill had gotten
Danny to bring women to him and stand watch while they had sex.
(Altogether, Bill had hundreds of women brought to him, sometimes
several a day. Young, pretty women pulled over for speeding or
whatever would be offered a choice between a jail sentence or a
trip to go see Bill.)
Part of Danny's job was to make sure that each woman was ready
and willing when Bill met her. Kathy told people that Bill was
*really* mad when Paula Jones wouldn't "put out." Bill hates to
be refused.
On May 10, [1994] Kathy was found dead with a pistol in her hand.
A suicide, the police said. Only three problems with this:
a. Women rarely use guns to kill themselves.
b. I can't find anyone who *ever* heard of a nurse shooting
herself. (Why should they? They know all the right dosages
for pills, and they have access to them.)
c. I've talked to three of the six nurses who worked most
closely with Kathy at Baptist Memorial in Little Rock. They
gave me, in no uncertain terms, a loud message to convey to
you: "NO WAY did Kathy Ferguson kill herself." They are
irate.
Footnote to story: About three weeks later, Danny reversed his
story, saying he didn't lead Paula to Clinton's room after all.
Second footnote: Bill Shelton, Kathy's new boyfriend (since her
separation from Danny), was loudly critical of the suicide story
and complained to many people about it. Bill was found dead on
June 9. They're calling this a suicide, too. (Perhaps it was. I
haven't checked it out yet.)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #4: Vincent Foster, who was Clinton's counsel for
Whitewater, was the highest government official to meet an
untimely death since the Kennedys.
He *could* have killed himself on July 20, 1993, as Robert Fiske,
Clinton's "independent" counsel claimed. But it's rather
doubtful. The story line concocted by Fiske has about 20 major
holes in it -- which partly explains his replacement by Kenneth
Starr. A few examples:
** Official photos show the alleged suicide gun in Vince's
right hand. Trouble is, he was left-handed. (Of course, a hit
man wouldn't have known that.) Fiske ignored this in his
report.
** Vince went out and hired two lawyers on July 19. As
Clinton's man in charge of covering up Whitewater, he had
failed badly and could see everything was about to unravel
(which it began to do in Arkansas the very next day).
Question: Why pay for a lawyer to launch a defense and then
shoot yourself a day later? Fiske ignored this.
** After a somewhat hurried lunch in his office July 20,
Vince grabbed his jacket and left the White House with the
words, "I'll be back." And then we are supposed to believe,
apparently, that he picked up a White House beeper, drove to
his Georgetown townhouse, got a gun, drove to a lonely park
in Arlington, walked 200 yards to a steep slope, went down
into some thick bushes, sat down, shot himself and *then*
threw his glasses 13 feet away through heavy brush, and wound
up lying down supine and perfectly straight, legs together,
with arms straight down at his side, the gun *still* in his
hand, and trickles of blood running from his mouth in several
directions, including uphill. What's wrong with this picture?
** Where's the bullet? None was ever found even after a
massive search and excavation. Could it be that the police
and FBI looked in the wrong place? Sgt. George Gonzalez (the
first paramedic on the scene) and his boss both insisted they
found Foster 200 feet from the official spot. If they're
right, then why was the body moved?
** Where are the fingerprints on the gun? There were none!
** Where are the skull fragments? None were ever found.
Normally, a .38 will blow out a 4" to 5" hole, with blood and
brains everywhere. Because of the mess and the noise, most
sophisticated hit men today repack their cartridges with a
half charge. This explains the tiny, one-inch hole in the
back of Vince's head. Fiske skipped this.
** Who is the mystery blonde whose hairs were found on
Vince? And why did Fiske not mention that carpet fibers and
semen were found on his [Foster's] shorts? In this age of
detective movies, how could anyone think such clues unworthy
of mention in a serious report?
Sadly, the real reason Fiske was sacked by that 3-judge
panel was not to preserve an "appearance of impartiality," as
the papers said. They were simply tipped off that Fiske was
rapidly burying everything he could. For instance, when David
Hale's trial judge refused to keep Bill Clinton's name
entirely *out* of Hale's testimony, Fiske immediately stopped
the trial and changed his charge from a huge felony to a
small misdemeanor -- with a vastly reduced sentence!
[...to be continued...]
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MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX
By Nicholas A. Guarino
[List of victims from pamphlet]
[...continued...]
** Where's the suicide note? Vince [Foster] wrote an
unsigned *outline* of a resignation letter, which Clinton's
counsel Bernard Nussbaum kept for six days, tore into 27
pieces (without leaving one single fingerprint -- try that!),
then changed his mind and let the bright yellow pieces
strangely appear in Vince's briefcase, which the police and
FBI had already inspected and found to be empty. But this
"suicide note" says nothing about suicide, of course. And the
final letter is missing.
** Today, thanks to the drug trade, hit men have polished
the "staged suicide" to an exact science. If any sign of a
struggle remains, the killer has failed his task. The trick
is to persuade the victim he'll be OK if he cooperates -- and
then shoot suddenly. In the vile jargon of the professional
assassins I've had the misfortune of meeting, "Ya gotta
butter up a turkey before ya roast 'im." To my utter
amazement, neither Fiske nor the Senate investigators knew
anything about how hit men work today.
** I could go on and on. Fiske quoted reports -- even an
anonymous one -- from visitors to the park [Fort Marcy Park]
that day. But some witnesses also saw "a menacing-looking
Hispanic man" by a white van with its big door open near
Vince's car just before the body was found. Fiske left that
out.
** Instead of allowing Vince's office to be sealed after his
death, top Clinton staffers Bernie Nussbaum, Patsy Thomasson,
and Maggie Williams frantically rifled it for "national
security matters" (read: incriminating Whitewater documents)
and carted them off to Hillary's closet upstairs. In a
stunning show of chutzpah, they even made the park police and
FBI agents sit in the hallway for two hours while they did
it. And Nussbaum later claimed it was only ten minutes! (An
FBI agent disclosed to me that a file was opened for
*obstruction* *of* *justice*, but Bill had it closed.)
Why would anybody want a nice, gentle fellow like Vince Foster
killed and his body dumped in a park? For some excellent reasons,
which I detail in my book, *The Impeached President*. [CN --
Apparently available by writing to *The Wall Street Underground*,
1129 East Cliff Road, Burnsville, Minnesota 55337]...
But the #1 reason is that Vince knew far too much and he had to
go because he was about to crack -- and that would have ended the
Clinton presidency right there and then.
Suppose, however, it *was* a suicide. Suppose Whitewater was
becoming such a horror that suicide seemed better than facing the
music.
What then?
Then the only logical explanation is scenario #2, as follows:
** Vince's Whitewater coverup was coming apart. Facts were
popping up in the press and people were talking. For
instance, Clinton's partner in Whitewater, Jim McDougal, had
gone to Little Rock attorney and 1990 Republican
gubernatorial candidate Sheffield Nelson and made a taped
statement which I have heard, saying:
I could sink it [the coverup] quicker than they could lie
about it if I could get in a position so I wouldn't have
my head beaten off. And Bill knows that.
** So sensitive was Vince to criticism that he was still
bothered about the heat he was getting for his role in
Travelgate. In fact, Fiske stated that those close to Vince
thought that "the single greatest source of his distress was
the criticism he... received following the firing of seven
employees from the White House Travel Office." Little did
they know the whole story. Vince had to keep Whitewater
details bottled up inside -- even at home.
** On the day Vince shot himself, he received a shocking
phone call from an attorney at Arkansas' Rose Law Firm saying
that FBI Director William Sessions was about to subpoena the
documents of Judge David Hale. Hale was a Clinton appointee
who charged that Clinton forced him to give fraudulent SBA
loans of millions of dollars to Clinton's friends. In the
Senate hearings, Clinton's people denied such a call took
place, but I know for a definite fact that it did. And I'm
backed up by the Rose phone billings and Vince's phone log.
Also, Sen. Christopher Bond (R.-Mo.) later confirmed that the
call was from "an old friend" at Rose.
** About this time, Clinton fired his FBI Director -- a step
so desperate that no President had ever taken it.
** Vince realized that the genie was out of the bottle. He
had confided to his brother-in-law, former congressman Beryl
Anthony, that he was very worried that Congress itself was
about to launch a criminal probe into his affairs. (In this
scenario, the "suicide note" was actually the "opening
argument for his defense" before Congress -- a defense which
Vince told his wife he wrote on July 11.)
** He was sure that in such a probe, the easy-going David
Hale would spill the beans and drag in Gov. Tucker, Steve
Smith, Madison Marketing, Castle Grande, Whitewater, Vince
himself -- and, inevitably, Bill Clinton. He mentally added
up the fines and prison terms he would face for concealing
Bill's crimes -- many of which he had taken a supporting role
in. The totals were horrendous. And the thought of being a
central figure in America's first presidential impeachment
[CN -- Pres. Andrew Johnson was the first impeachment
trial, although he, in the end, was not actually impeached.]
was too much for his quiet mind to bear. He told his wife and
sister that he was thinking of resigning. (But he still
couldn't let on about the Whitewater crisis.)
** He was cracking up. Everyone around him agreed he looked
and sounded terrible. The Desyrel prescribed by his doctor
didn't help. So when the call came about Hale's subpoena, he
had to go home and think things over. But there, alas, he
could think of no way out. So he put two bullets in his
revolver, drove across the Potomac to the first quiet spot he
found, hid himself in some bushes where he could pray in
solitude, and pulled the trigger.
That's the most probable *suicide* scenario. Unfortunately for
Clinton, it's almost as damning as the murder scenario.
Today everyone -- from Vince's family to the press to the White
House -- professes to be baffled by Vince's death. "How on
earth," they wonder, "could such a typical Washington flap as
Travelgate cause Vince to be so depressed?"
Under either scenario, the plain answer is: It didn't.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victims #5 & #6: Then you have the small-plane crashes, which are
fairly easy events to stage. Hit men commonly use any of five
quick, simple, techniques.
One method was used on the first two victims, C. Victor Raiser
II, the former finance co-chairman of Clinton's presidential
campaign, and his son, Montgomery. Their plane crashed in good
weather near Anchorage, Alaska, on July 30, 1992. I respected
Raiser as a man of integrity, but he was caught up in a lot of
shenanigans of the campaign -- though he didn't like them.
Eventually, he soured on Clinton and thus became a potential
major leak and a big threat to Bill's presidency.
[CN -- A biographical note seems to be in order: The author of
this sketch, Nicholas A. Guarino is editor of *The Wall Street
Underground*. Among many other things, he lived for 20 years in
Arkansas and personally knew Commander Billy Jeff, Jim Blair,
Vince Foster, Jim McDougal, David Hale, Don Tyson, Governor
Tucker, "and dozens more of that bunch." He uses his own
extensive research as well as "numerous informants" to "warn
others of the acute dangers of evil, power-hungry men in
positions of influence." Today, he lives "in a scenic, secluded
place as far from Arkansas as he can get."]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #7: Herschel Friday was another member of Raiser's
committee and a heck of a nice guy. His plane dropped out of site
and exploded as he approached his own private landing strip in
Arkansas in a light drizzle on March 1, 1994. Herschel was a top-
notch pilot and his strip is better than those in most cities. (I
know because I almost had to use it once when my own plane's
carburetor started backfiring.)
[...to be continued...]
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MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX
By Nicholas A. Guarino
[List of victims from pamphlet]
[...continued...]
Victim #8: Just two days later, Dr. Ronald Rogers, a very vocal
dentist from Royal, Arkansas, was on his way to reveal some dirt
on Clinton to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, a reporter from the
*London Sunday Telegraph*, when his twin-engine Cessna crashed
with a full tank of gas in clear weather south of Lawton,
Oklahoma. His pilot had just radioed that he was having trouble
and needed to refuel in Lawton. (I'm 98% sure of the technique
that killed both Rogers and Friday; it drops your fuel gauge to
"empty," then cuts off your fuel when you tilt forward to land --
and leaves no trace of a clue for investigators.)
There have been six other air crash deaths of former Clinton
intimates and advisors, but I believe they were true accidents.
In fact, in the course of about 50 radio/TV interviews, I've
talked with a number of people who blame every accident since the
Titanic on Clinton. This foolishness distresses me greatly
because it discredits the actual known murders. Yes, there are
likely hundreds of deaths among people connected in some remote
way to Clinton's scandals, but the probable murders are pretty
much limited to those you see in this special report -- and even
some of these could be accidents...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #9: But Barry Seal's death was no accident. His story is
so exciting that Hollywood made it into a movie (*Double-
Crossed*), starring Dennis Hopper and Adrienne Barbeau.
Barry made about $50 million as a pilot and plane supplier in
Clinton's incredibly elaborate and successful drug-running
operation out of Mena, Arkansas.
Iran-Contra was conceived as a simple scheme to use the
Ayatollah's money to send guns to the Contra freedom fighters.
But from that humble, Ollie North beginning, it blossomed into
the great Arkansas dream. Virtually every load of Chinese AK-47s
(plus light machine guns, grenades, and other small ordnance)
taken from Mena to Nicaragua was matched by a return load of dope
and cash flown in from Columbia via Panama or the Cayman Islands
on "black flights" that Customs officials and air traffic
controllers were instructed to ignore.
According to an exhaustive, top-selling new book entitled
*Compromised*, by Terry Reed and John Cummings (which I found
highly accurate), pilots were bringing back and air-dropping over
$9 million a week in cash, which was properly laundered and then
went into Arkansas industries owned by friends of Gov. Clinton.
(*Not* into Clinton's pockets -- he didn't usually do that kind
of thing except to pay off campaign debts and favors.) And in
case you're wondering why Bill needed his land scams when he had
all that drug money available, the answer is, the drug operations
came later.
Incidentally, the money was laundered through such sterling banks
as BCCI [Bank of Credit and Commerce International]. Remember
them? I discussed BCCI's involvement extensively with its
Panamanian president.
Five or six of the CIA subcontractor pilots running the gun-drug
loop under Barry Seal have said that Nella (near Mena) was chosen
as the base for training Contra soldiers mainly because its
terrain and foliage were so similar to Nicaragua. Many local
residents still recall camouflaged Latinos holding maneuvers in
the countryside -- but they all agree it's not healthy to talk
about it too much.
Iran-Contra was an impressive operation on both ends. I still
remember standing on the deck of a flat-deck, flat-bottom supply
boat used to run guns upriver to the Contras in Nicaragua. It was
loaded to the gunwhales with Russian-made rifles, machine guns,
rocket-propelled grenades, etc., in Chinese-marked boxes. The
captain and his partner, a German arms dealer, invited me to
sample the merchandise, so I pried the lids off a couple of
wooden cases, took out some AK-47s, and sprayed a few clips
around the woods. (Very nice guns, but I wasn't in the market.)
In case this begins to sound like a far-right hallucination, you
should know that some liberal groups (ever opposed to CIA tricks)
concur. For instance, *The Wall Street Journal* said on June 29:
There is even one public plea that Special Counsel Robert
Fiske should investigate possible links between Mena and the
savings-and-loan association involved in Whitewater. The plea
was sounded by the Arkansas Committee, a left-leaning group
of former University of Arkansas students who have carefully
tracked the Mena affair for years.
I wish them luck. And good health. The Arkansas Attorney General,
the IRS, and the state police have been met for fifteen years
with "a wall of obfuscation and obstruction" erected by the
Clinton circle of power -- which is EVERYWHERE in Arkansas.
According to *Penthouse*, which is not exactly noted for being a
far-right magazine:
He [Clinton] controlled virtually all the 2,000 handpicked
appointees to an array of boards and commissions that
effectively rule the state... Anyone seeking to do business
with the state -- and that included just about everybody
running a business -- learned to expect direct solicitations
by Clinton's campaign finance people.
Polk County Prosecutor Charles Black, to his credit, once even
sat down with Clinton himself and pleaded for a state
investigation of Mena!
Bill said that "he would get a man on it and get back to me,"
Black recalls. That was in 1988. Black is still sitting by his
phone. (I'm sure Bill got a kick out of that interview. I recall
him grinning as he made some comment about "dumb Arkies" one
afternoon at the brokerage I owned in Harrison -- one of a dozen
or so occasions when we spent time together.)
But at the risk of sounding as bad as Bill, I must remind you
that, after all, this *is* Arkansas... where:
** One governor before Clinton had every concrete-and-steel
bridge in the state insured for fire (yes, fire). Guess who
owned the insurance company.
** Another governor, being indicted for fraud, simply canned
the judge and replaced him with the town drunk, who then
dismissed the grand jury.
So just think of Bill as a traditional, Arkansas kind of
politician.
But I digress. Barry Seal was eventually arrested by the Federal
Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA]. To get off the hook, he
turned state's evidence and fingered several big drug dealers. He
even managed to take clandestine photographs of major Columbian
and Panamanian figures, one of which President Reagan showed
proudly in a nationwide TV speech.
But in the end, the DEA betrayed the flamboyant Barry by allowing
him to be sentenced to a halfway house, where a few days later he
was a sitting duck for three Columbian avengers with Uzi and MAC-
10 submachine guns with silencers. The ending wasn't pretty, but
it made a hard-hitting movie.
Why did the DEA dump Barry? Perhaps because, as Clinton observed
to Terry Reed, "Seal just got too damn big for his britches and
that scum basically deserved to die, in my opinion..."
I'm not saying Bill ran Iran-Contra. He didn't -- not even the
Arkansas half of it. But five men in the Mena operation (sorry, I
can't reveal their names to you) have affirmed that he provided
their cover as governor and "rode herd" on them through the
Intelligence Division of the state police. Other high officials
helped. Why? Because the Arkansas state bonds program (ADFA)
received 10 percent of the net profits -- plus the *use* of 100
percent of the gross in their banks as they laundered it. Quite a
boost to the economy!
At least that was the deal cut with Clinton. But the Mena
operations (code-named *Centaur Rose* and *Jade Bridge* by
Reagan's CIA Director Wm. Casey) finally had to be yanked from
Arkansas and moved to Mexico under the name Operation *Screw
Worm*. Simple reason: Bill and friends just couldn't resist
putting Arkansas' hand deeper into the till than they were
supposed to.
In fact, eyewitness Reed details at length the tense meeting in
which William P. Barr -- later President Bush's Attorney General
-- breaks the bad news to a very angry Clinton. (Sorry, I must
condense the conversation greatly. You've got to read his book!)
On a March night in 1986, they met with Reed, Oliver North, and
two other CIA men in a musty, poorly-lit World War II ammunition
bunker at Camp Robinson outside Little Rock.
After several sharp exchanges and traded insults, Barr said, "The
deal we made was to launder our money through your bond business.
What we didn't plan on was you... shrinking our laundry... That's
why we're pulling the operation out of Arkansas. It's become a
liability for us. We don't need live liabilities."
"What do ya' mean, live liabilities?" Clinton demanded.
"There's no such thing as a dead liability. It's an oxymoron, get
it? Oh, or don't you Rhodes Scholars study things like that?"
Barr snapped.
"What! Are you threatenin' us? Because if ya' are..."
>From that point on, Barr was able to smooth things out, and he
concluded with the most eye-opening passage of the book:
You and your state have been our greatest asset. The beauty
of this, as you know, is that you're a Democrat, and with our
ability to influence both parties, this country can get
beyond partisan gridlock. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to
you that unless you f*** up and do something stupid, you're
No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job you've always
wanted [meaning the Presidency]. That's pretty heady stuff,
Bill. So why don't you help us keep a lid on this and we'll
all be promoted together.
You and guys like us are the fathers of the new government.
Hell, we're the new covenant.
An amazing statement, wasn't it? Especially for 1986.
[...to be continued...]
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FLYING HIGH WITH COMMANDER BILLY JEFF
"A Scenario"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff put on the epaulettes and looked in the mirror. "Now I
truly am a Commander!" he exclaimed. "Commander Billy Jeff!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"The Commander" snuck out back behind the White House to puff on
a cigar. "I sure do hope Hillary doesn't find out!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The wind wreaked havoc on his $200 hairdo. "Aw darnit, anyway!"
he groaned. "Oh well. I'll just open a $200 line of credit and
get another haircut!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commander Billy Jeff threw down the old stogie. "Say. I sure am
horny," he thought.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marie, the new White House maid, was dusting the Lincoln Bedroom.
She wore the latest skimpy French maid's outfit. Commander Billy
Jeff entered the bedroom, shut the door, and locked it behind
him. He pulled down his pants. "Mon Dieu!" exclaimed Marie. "I am
not paid for thees!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Commander advanced toward Marie. "Come here, Frenchy. It's a
matter of national security," he ordered.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marie ran around the advancing Billy Jeff and his erect member,
narrowly escaping his grasping paws. She tried opening the door
-- but it was locked! He was in hot pursuit!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The door was unlocked from the other side. In walked Hillary.
"Thank Heaven!" thought Marie. "That bitch ruined my fun,"
muttered Billy Jeff.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marie escaped, at least for the time being. Hillary spoke to the
Commander: "For God's sake, pull your pants up, will you? You're
supposed to be an intellectual, remember?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hillary came closer. "Say, what's that I smell?" she asked. "Why
it smells like a stinky old cigar!" Billy Jeff began to cower.
"I, I, I..."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hillary exploded. "Billy Jeff!" she shrieked. "You know you're
only allowed to smoke marijuana in here!" She socked Billy Jeff
hard -- POW! -- right in his now-wilting member.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He sure didn't look like any "Commander" now, not moaning on the
floor with his pants down, holding his pained member, in the
Lincoln Bedroom of the White House. Hillary stalked out in a
huff. "Oh gee whiz. That bitch is always ruining my fun," he
blubbered as the tears fell down his face.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
After a few minutes, Commander Billy Jeff felt a little better. A
happy thought occurred to him: "Hey! My brother Roger is in town
with his hillbilly band!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Commander picked up the phone. "Secret Service? Get some
limousines out back, pronto. It's a diplomatic mission."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Riding in the back of a limousine, on the way to the seedy side
of town where Roger's hillbilly band was playing a "gig", Billy
Jeff poured himself a tall, cool whisky sour. "Say, can't you go
any faster?!" he snapped at the driver.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The limousine pulled up in front of a cheap tavern in the seedy
side of town. "Keep the motor running, and put it on my line of
credit!" laughed Billy Jeff as he exited the limousine.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
But Roger wasn't there! "Dog-gonnit! I wanted to have some fun!"
complained Commander Billy Jeff. The bartender and one old boozer
were the only other ones inside the bar.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Where's Roger and his hillbilly band?" inquired Billy Jeff.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Aw, those guys? They were shit," said the bartender. "Those bums
couldn't make it even if they were the President's relatives! We
threw those bums out last night."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commander Billy Jeff felt his ears turn red. He was getting very
angry. "Threw them out... threw them out..." he fumed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A black cloud seemed to form over Billy Jeff's head. "...threw
them out..."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He advanced toward the bartender. "Say," he said very quietly.
"You can't throw people around like that. Don't you know that's
illegal?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The bartender looked up from where he was polishing glasses.
"Huh?" he asked.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff stood full up against the bar. "Don't you know that's
illegal? Don't you know we can be 'tough on crime'?" he uttered
venomously.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The bartender began to look worried. "Hey. We cancelled them,
that's all."
[...to be continued...]
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I received the following from a CN reader who wishes to remain
anonymous. What I plan to do is post the entire document over a
period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 10.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
(continued)
34. Kah, Gary H., En Route to Global Occupation, Lafayette,
Louisiana, Huntington House Publishers, 1992. Kah is a high-
ranking government liaison and author. Summary: Documents plans
for a one-world government based on Kah's more than ten thousand
hours of research. These plans include a cash-less society,
wherein electronic transfers of money take place using user-ID
cards, invisible bar code tatoos, or computer chips smaller than
a human hair inserted under the skin by injection.
The plans encompass methods that include economic control, media
control, and political control.
The economic control encompasses controlling the American economy
through big bank mergers, the Federal Reserve, and tax-exempt
foundations protecting big money families. Many congressmen and
political activists have attempted to investigate and expose
these financial manipulations, as well as call for an audit or
repeal of the Federal Reserve, including Representative Wright
Patman of Texas, Congressman Charles Lindbergh, Sr., Congressman
Louis T. McFadden, Congressman Carroll Reece, Congressman Larry
P. McDonald, Senator John Heinz, and Senator John Tower, Senator
Jesse Helms, Lt. Col. Archibald Roberts, Congressman John Rarick,
Senator Jack Metcalf, Representative Henry Gonzales of Texas,
Representative Phil Crane of Illinois. As a result, some have
been harassed and even killed in so-called accidents.
Congressional committee investigations have concluded that
basically those behind tax-exempt foundations and those behind
the Federal Reserve are basically all the same people. The top
eight stockholders in the Federal Reserve include: Rothschild
Banks of London and Berlin (the Rothschild family was closely
allied with Freemasonry); Lazard Brothers Banks of Paris; Israel
Moses Seif Banks of Italy; Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam;
Lehman Brothers Bank of New York; Kuhn, Loeb Bank of New York;
Chase Manhattan Bank of New York; and Goldman, Sachs Bank of New
York.
Political control is also one of their plans. The tax-exempt
foundations were found to reach "far into government, into the
policymaking circles of Congress and into the State Department."
The foundations served not just as tax shelters, but also to fund
major think-tanks which have influenced "virtually every aspect
of American life." The think-tanks served to shape public
opinion, to promote certain teachers and experts in foreign
affairs, to dominate "learned journals in international affairs,"
to appoint State Department officials to foundation jobs,
controlling academic research of social sciences, public
education and international affairs through funding grants and
controlling research monies, and to appoint foundation officials
to State Department jobs. At least "one foreign foundation
[originated by Cecil Rhodes, a close ally of the Rothschilds and
European Freemasonry] was allied with the major U.S. foundations
in shaping our foreign policy."
Foundations, businesses, families, banks, think-tanks, and
capitalists mentioned in connection with these plans include:
The Rothschilds, the Warburgs, Kuhn, Loeb, J.P. Morgan,
Rockefellers, the Carnegies, Standard Oil, Chemical Bank, the
Harrimans, Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Exxon, Mobil, Sohio,
Marathon, Phillips 66, Chevron, Humble Oil, Arco, Texaco,
Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation,
Guggenheim Foundation, United Nations Association, Institute of
Pacific Relations, Council on Foreign Relations, Rhodes
Scholarship Fund, Trilateral Commission, Royal Institute of
International Affairs, Dartmouth Conference, Aspen Institute for
Humanistic Studies, Atlantic Institute, Club of Rome,
Bilderberger Group, the Nobel prize, Brookings Institute, Rand
Corporation, Hudson Institute, Middle East Institute,
International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.
>From the perspective of those involved in the conspiracy,
national boundaries, political philosophies, and constitutions
simply do not matter. "All that matters to this club is the
maximization of profits resulting from the practice of what can
be described as finance capitalism, a system which rests upon the
twin pillars of debt and monopoly. This isn't real capitalism.
It is the road to economic concentration and to political
slavery."
Many divisions of our government are dominated by Freemasonry,
CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and TC (Trilateral Commission)
members, including State Department, Treasury Department,
National Security Council, the Presidency of the United States,
Federal Reserve officials, Defense Department, U.S. ambassadors,
National Security Advisors, Secretary of Defense, Supreme Allied
Commander of Europe, U.S. ambassadors to NATO, CIA Directors,
Attorney General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"Not only have presidents belonged to these organizations, but
the candidates running on the opposing tickets have, almost
without exception, been members as well....Regardless of who gets
elected, the same agenda moves forward, because candidates from
both parties are consistently drawn from the same school of
thought espousing" a new world order.
Media control is also part of their plan. Democracy does not
stand a chance against such a conspiracy as long as there is no
free press to keep the U.S. citizens informed. The media were
also found to be dominated by CFR and TC members, including
William Paley, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Bill Moyers, Tom
Brokaw, John Chancellor, Marvin Kalb, Irving R. Levine, David
Brinkley, John Scali, Barbara Walters, Daniel Schorr, Robert
McNeil, Jim Lehrer, and Hodding Carter III. Various
congressional reports indicate a growing control of CBS, NBC, and
ABC stock by the Rockefeller family bank, Chase Manhattan.
"Independent newspapers [531 in 1983, down from 1,381 in 1945]
have also been the target of establishment takeovers and
mergers....Major newspapers, [magazines, and book publishers]
influenced by CFR" and/or TC members include New York Times,
Newsweek, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Co.,
Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Sun Times, Los Angeles
Times, Houston Post, Minneapolis Star, Arkansas Gazette, Des
Moines Register, USA Today, Denver Post, Time, Life, People,
Fortune, Money, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, US News &
World Report, Saturday Review, Reader's Digest, Atlantic Monthly,
McCalls, Harpers, MacMillan, Random House, Harper & Row, Cowles
Publishing, Simon & Schuster, McGraw-Hill, Viking Press, Little
Brown & Co., Harper Brothers, Xerox Corporation, IBM Publishing &
Printing, Yale University Press, and newspapers in more than 40
other U.S. cities.
The Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations have influenced the
education of American children. During this century, they
supplied or stimulated prominent funding for institutions of
higher learning. In the early 1930's they backed John Dewey's
socialist philosophy. They financed the writing of textbooks,
the National Education Association, and teacher training schools.
Rene Wormser, Counsel for the Senate investigative Reece
Committee said that these "foundations nurtured some of the most
ardent academic advocates of upsetting the American system and
supplanting it with a Socialist state....By 1934 the NEA adopted
John Dewey's philosophy of humanism, socialism, and globalism,
and incorporated it into the classroom." At this same time Dewey
went to Russia and organized the Marxist system of education
there.
These foundations "also spent millions of dollars on rewriting
history books and creating textbooks that undermined patriotism
and free enterprise." One series of textbooks espoused Marxist
propaganda to such an "extent that the California legislature
refused to appropriate money for them."
The author's investigation into Freemasonry included interviewing
former and current members, some of whom had reached the level of
either Thirty-Second or Thirty-Third degree. "The testimonies of
current Masons differed drastically from those of Masons who had
left the Order. Current members expressed no knowledge
whatsoever of any higher religious aims of the Order. They were
fiercely loyal to the lodge and told me that Freemasonry was
nothing more than an international secret fraternity based on
good works. Former Masons, on the other hand, offered views that
could not have been more opposite from those of their
counterparts. They told me that the organization was anti-Christ
and that it was dangerous, particularly in its higher levels,
citing the previous as their main reason for leaving, adding that
it was Luciferically-inspired....[Regarding the discrepancy] I
concluded that current members either would not reveal what they
knew because of the oaths of secrecy they had taken or else they
truly were unaware of these things, not yet having reached a
level where they were exposed to the underlying purpose of their
Order." One researcher had gathered secret Masonic materials and
writings for over twenty years "from widows of deceased Masons
who were unaware of the significance of the Order and its
literature." The Illuminati and Knights Templars received
repeated mention throughout, confirming that Freemasonry is a
continuation of the Illuminati.
Historically, the high level Masons (above Thirty-Third degree)
took their teachings from the Illuminati, who in turn took their
teachings from the Knights Templars, who in turn took their
teachings from the Gnostics. The Gnostics believed God had two
sons, Satanael, the elder son, and Jesus, the younger son.
Satanael, "filled with pride, he rebelled against his Father and
fell from Heaven," creating the visible world, "man, and the
serpent which became his minister. Later Christ came to earth in
order to show men the way to Heaven, but His death was
ineffectual, for even by descending into Hell He could not wrest
the power from Satanael. This belief in the impotence of Christ
and the necessity therefore for placating Satan, not only 'Prince
of this world,' but its creator, led to the further doctrine that
Satan, being all-powerful, should be adored" and worshipped.
The Knights Templars were initially a religious and military
organization during the crusades, composed of nobles who were
"granted favors by many European rulers and gained possession of
property throughout the continent. Through gifts of land and
money, the Templars became extremely wealthy and powerful." By
1300 "the Templars, through their enormous wealth and widespread
organization, had become the bankers of Europe...."
According to an official text of the Masons, Morals and Dogma,
"Their watchword was, to become wealthy in order to buy the
world." Later the King of France arrested the Knights Templars
and conducted an investigation. "The knights confessed to a
variety of notorious crimes and admitted to taking blasphemous
oaths against Jesus Christ upon admission into the order." These
crimes consisted of spitting upon the crucifix, committing
obscenities, and practicing unnatural vices (sodomy). The Pope
intervened to protect his papal jurisdiction. Later, due to
mounting public pressure, he launched his own investigation for
fear the King's had involved torture. The Pope's investigation
revealed the same results. In front of witnesses and without
torture, the knights admitted to abominations, indecencies, and
obscenities. "The Knights Templars, as it turned out, had been
masters of deception, expert in duplicity, appearing to serve
Christ on the surface while worshipping Lucifer within their
inner rites." Morals and Dogma confirmed that they "had two
doctrines, one concealed and reserved for the Masters...the other
public." The Pope abolished the order. It then went
underground, trusting its dangerous secrets only to those who had
passed successfully through a series of degrees. Hundreds of
years later, they surfaced again, this time as a benevolent
organization of good works, taking over the stone mason guilds of
Europe, since the original Knights Templars had viewed themselves
as grand builders and had with their riches built many castles
and estates. The stone mason guilds were eager to make the union
because they were at that time in danger of going under due to
their shrinking numbers. The transition was successful with the
public viewing it favorably as an organization of simple good
works.
By 1776, Adam Weishaupt, a famous Mason, had developed the
Illuminati, a secret society within a secret society. One
Masonic historian himself has stated that the goals include
"found[ing] a new Hierarchy, to overturn all authority, and to
press down all the Social Order under the level of Equality."
Another Masonic historian stated "the express aim of the Order
was to abolish Christianity, and overturn all civil government."
In Weishaupt's own words, the Illuminati "will by degrees, and in
silence, possess themselves of the government of the States, and
make use of those means for this purpose...." Around 1782,
Weishaupt "succeeded at forging an alliance between illuminized
Freemasonry and the growing Rothschild banking network, thereby
giving the Order the financial means to begin to carry out its
plans." By making an alliance with international financiers, "it
took root, it grew, it flourished, it gathered into itself more
men of royal and noble titles than were possessed by the
Hohenzollern family; even the Jesuits joined it." Weishaupt
convinced many Christian leaders to join by holding out the
Illuminati as a Christian organization with the express purpose
of unifying the world for the sake of Christ. The World Council
of Churches, "an organization that is strongly influenced by
Freemasonry," continues Weishaupt's work by promoting interfaith
unity despite the requisite compromise of each individual faith.
Weishaupt himself wrote of his sarcastic glee in getting a famous
protestant minister to join by believing that the Illuminati were
genuinely Christian, "O Man, Man! To what may'st thou not be
persuaded."
During the 1800's, as the United States began to emerge as a
world power, the Illuminati shifted its attention from Europe to
the U.S. "In fact, many of this country's political founding
fathers were Masons. Most of them, like George Washington, were
decent men who knew of no higher aims of the Order and who even
spoke out against the activities of the Illuminati."
Albert Pike, an illuminized Freemason, stated in the 1800's, "The
blind Force of the people is a Force that must be economized, and
also managed....It must be regulated by Intellect [a reference to
the Illuminati or the highest adepts of Freemasonry]....When all
these Forces are combined, and guided by the Intellect, and
regulated by the RULE of Right, and Justice....the great
revolution prepared for by the ages will begin to march. It is
because Force is ill regulated that revolutions prove failures."
Pike authored a book called "The Book of Apadno, which 'contains
the prophecies concerning the reign of the Anti-Christ from the
Satanic point of view.'" He also organized many headquarters
around the world "for the purpose of gathering information vital
to political and propaganda efforts." Speaking as the leader of
all Freemasonry, Pike said, "We worship a God, but it is the God
that one adores without superstition....The Masonic religion
should be, by all of us initiates of the high degrees, maintained
in the purity of the Luciferic doctrine."
"The success of a conspiracy depends on its ability to conceal
from the masses the truth of what they are working for. The
conspirators will, therefore, bring no more people into their
inner circle than what is absolutely necessary for the success of
their mission." This is why the higher Masonic degrees cannot be
earned by good works, but only conferred from above. The lower
Masonic degrees, earned by countless hours of establishing
hospitals or helping the crippled, serve as a shield made up of
innocents between the public and the true intentions of the
Masonic hierarchy.
The role of the Soviet Union in the development of a new world
order involves the birth of communism. Karl Marx was hired by
the League of Just Men, a branch organization of the Illuminati,
to write the Communist Manifesto and to penetrate and subvert the
labor movement in France. In the early days of the revolution,
"the revolutionaries called themselves Spartacusts (after Adam
Weishaupt's Illuminati pseudonym) before becoming known as
Bolsheviks and later as Communists." There were other Illuminati
who infiltrated the labor movement. On the labor movement's
committee charged with the responsibility of making the movement
international in scope were a personal secretary to one of the
two highest-ranking officials of the Illuminati, a French
Freemason, and the secretary of the English Masons' Union.
Speaking of the communist revolution, Churchill said, "From the
days of Spartacus-Weishaupt, to those of Karl Marx, to those of
Trotsky...this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of
civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis
of arrested development and envious malevolence, and impossible
equality has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring
of every subversive movement during the nineteenth century...."
The larger plan was to create and spark war, acts of terrorism,
and military aggression so that the people of the world would
conclude that nationalism was responsible for war. Therefore,
the goal would become elimination of national boundaries and
acceptance of an authority that would speak for a new world
order, promising world peace. "There is direct evidence to
suggest that the hidden powers have been planning for the
eventual merger of the United States and the Soviet Union all
along, but not until after a prolonged period of Cold War had
accomplished their objectives. This evidence surfaced during the
Reece Committee investigations into tax-exempt foundations during
the 1950's." Norman Dodd, the director of research for the
committee, had a conversation with H. Rowan Gaither, president of
the Ford Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations. Gaither said, "All of us here at the policymaking
level have had experience, either in O.S.S. (Office of Strategic
Services) or the European Economic Administration, with
directives from the White House. We operate under those
directives here. Would you like to know what those directives
are?" Dodd said that he would. Gaither then said, "The
substance of them is that we shall use our grant-making power so
to alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably
merged with the Soviet Union." When Dodd requested him to repeat
this before the Reece Committee, Gaither declined, "That we would
not think of doing."
As a religion, Masonry exhorts its members to omit Christ's name
from prayer. One Masonic instruction says, "To offer prayer in
the name of Christ, is contrary to the universality of Masonry."
Their source of power is claimed to be Lucifer. Masonic books
say, "LUCIFER, the Light-bearer!...Lucifer, the Son of the
Morning! Is it he who bears the Light?...Doubt it not!" Another
states, "The seething energies of Lucifer are in [the Mason's]
hands and before he may step onward and upward, he must prove his
ability to properly apply (this) energy." Albert Pike said,
"Lucifer is God....Lucifer, God of Light and God of Good, is
struggling for humanity against Adonay [The God of the
Christians] the God of Darkness and Evil." Pike also states that
the goals of Masonry are "the destruction of Christianity and
atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time." One
former member says, "I can tell you that the Lodges always make a
mockery of Christian Holy Days."
Because of the severity of the oaths of secrecy taken by Masonic
members (i.e., "binding myself under no less penalty than to have
my left breast torn open and my heart and vitals taken from
thence and thrown over my left shoulder and carried into the
valley of Jehosaphat, there to become a prey to the wild beasts
of the field, and vulture of the air if ever I should prove
willfully guilty of violating any part of this my solemn
oath...."), very few defect and even fewer defectors are willing
to talk. One such courageous man, Captain William Morgan, wrote
a book exposing the Masons. He was kidnapped and drowned in the
Niagara River in Batavia, New York by several Masons in 1826.
The publisher of the book was also kidnapped, but outraged
citizens of Batavia rescued him in time. Following this
incident, 45,000 Masons withdrew their membership. In 1848 one
of the Masons who had been appointed to assassinate Morgan gave a
death bed confession of the entire incident. Charles Finney
wrote that Morgan "was aware, as Masons generally were at the
time, that nearly all the civil offices in the country were in
the hands of Freemasons; and that the press was completely under
their control....Can [any Mason] who has taken and still adheres
to the oath of the Royal Arch degree [a particular Masonic
degree] be trusted in office? He swears to espouse the cause of
a companion of this degree when involved in any difficulty, so
far as to extricate him from the same, whether he be right or
wrong. He swears to conceal his crimes, murder and treason not
excepted."
One member included in a Masonic book about famous Masons is John
Marshall, a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Shortly before his death, he said, "The institution of Masonry
ought to be abandoned, as one capable of producing much evil, and
incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by
open means." Many other powerful politicians have campaigned
against Masonry, including William Seward (Secretary of State
under Lincoln), Daniel Webster, Ulysses S. Grant, John Adams,
James Madison, John Quincy Adams, and Millard Fillmore. "Anton
LaVey, the founder and leader of The Church of Satan, gives
repeated reference to Freemasonry in his book,...'Satanic Ritual
is a blend of Gnostic, Cabbalistic, Hermetic, and Masonic
elements....'"
"Every problem, no matter how small (or how fabricated), will
suddenly become a reason for why we need a world government. The
most convincing arguments will have to do with the environment,
global debt, world poverty, and the prevention of war. A New
World Order, they will say, is needed because individual nations
are no longer capable of dealing with these complex problems on
their own. The New World Order will appear to come from the
bottom up, as something that the people of the world want. It
will come in the name of democracy, non-threatening -not as a
system being forced upon us by our politicians."
[...to be continued...]
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>From the upcoming issue of Steamshovel Press (#12, due in two
weeks):
A Day In The Life
A Newly Declassified Document on Wilhelm Reich
In 1991 Steamshovel Press editor Kenn Thomas began a Freedom of
Information Act search of government files on Wilhelm Reich, the
orgone psychologist and UFO combatant whose scientific equipment
was destroyed and books burned by the federal government after it
sent him to certain death in the federal prison in Lewisberg,
Pennsylvania in 1957. The FOI search yielded many interesting
documents and a never before published photograph of Reich from
his prison file. In November 1994, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service declassified a document that had been
withheld from the original FOI request. It details an attempt by
the FBI in 1953 to get Dr. Reich to identify "suspected
subversive aliens and to furnish information gained while a
former member [sic] of the Communist Party in Germany" in the
1930s.
As the document reveals, the hapless agent assigned to this task
stumbled upon a Wilhelm Reich quite removed from the narrow
political preoccupations of his young adulthood. Reich had
reached an advanced stage of his study of the orgone and had
become convinced of its role in the developing awareness of the
UFO phenomenon. The FBI agent had preoccupations of his own--the
nudes in the artwork around Reich's Orgonon lab, for instance,
and any potential information on the two suspected Communists
(names deleted for the most part, in compliance with FOIA privacy
protections)-but reached the surprising conclusion that Reich had
"information which may be helpful to the government of the United
States." By visit's end, however, the agent came away thoroughly
chastised for his McCarthyist inquiry and with a clear glimpse of
Reich's rage over his overlooked and misunderstood work. It
clearly vindicates Reich from any suspicion that he fell prey to
the McCarthyist temperament, as he gave none of the corroboration
sought by the FBI and demanded from the agency acknowledgement of
the real issues he felt he faced, not the agency's red-baiting
fantasies.
Reich's widow, Ilse Ollendorff, mentioned this incident in a 1978
interview with Reich biographer Myron Sharaf (Fury On Earth, St.
Martin's Press, 1983), but this is the first time the agent's
report has been published. Steamshovel acknowledges with
gratitude the FOI declassification procedure that led to this new
look at a day in Reich's career.
DETAILS
SUBJECT was interviewed by the writer on November 24, 1953 in the
office of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, known locally as ORGONON,
which he heads, about four miles west of Rangeley, Maine, off
Maine Route 16.
ORGONON consists of several hundred acres of open fields and
sparse to heavy forest, situated on a slope overlooking Rangeley
Lake. Visible structures consist of one dwelling house, one small
structure signed "STUDENT LABORATORY", two garages, and one two
and a half story wood and stone structure overlooking the
surrounding property which is used as ORGONON laboratory-
observatory. A private road leads to ORGONON property from the
public highway through stone columns with a chain barring fence.
The chain was not in place upon my arrival. Signs at the gate
point to ORGONON and proclaim "RESEARCH AREA" and "RESTRICTED
AREA". A sign at the laboratory indicates "BY APPOINTMENT ONLY."
The first floor contains much medical testing and electrical
equipment. The office, library and observation platform are
located on the second floor. A vertical metal tower on the roof
contains several aerials for ultra-high frequency reception, but
no radio receiving or sending apparatus was to be seen. Hung on
the walls of the second floor, office and library, are several
large paintings of nude women and one American eagle. Also
visible were several statues of nudes, and one photograph of a
famous statue of a nude man and woman. Just inside the door
leading to the observation platform were three shot guns and
rifles with a supply of ammunition unboxed, in position for
instant use. A holstered pistol of heavy calibre hung by a belt
from the chair-back in which SUBJECT sat during the interview. A
system for interoffice communication was visible as was a
portable record player and standard radio receiver. Judging from
my seating arrangement during the interview and by suspicious
actions of SUBJECT, it is believed a recording of the
conversation was made, or intended.
Upon examination of my identification card and badge, SUBJECT
invited me into his office. He had apparently been working in the
laboratory with another man who was visible upon my entrance
through the main door. Again asking to see my identification,
SUBJECT informed me he is a psychiatrist and a scientist, and as
such he questioned my honesty and loyalty and said I may be a
Communist underground worker testing his knowledge of Communist
activities. SUBJECT stated he had been interviewed at Rangeley
about one year ago by a government agent (not otherwise
identified) and that SUBJECT had "thrown him off the property" as
he was a Communist sympathizer, arriving at that conclusion upon
the basis of his knowledge and training as a psychiatrist.
SUBJECT said he had subsequently reported the matter "to the
government", but he would not elaborate further on the details.
SUBJECT was informed that the purpose of the interview was to
obtain his testimony regarding knowledge of the Communist
movement and to determine his spirit of cooperation in disclosing
Communist aliens in the United States. SUBJECT replied that he
would cooperate fully, but said his exact words should be
recorded, either by tape or record, or by appearance before a
public hearing body. The fact that he was about to be asked to
identify a specific alien was not made known to SUBJECT until his
true feelings concerning cooperation were known. General
questions concerning Communism were put to SUBJECT for this
purpose, in replies to which SUBJECT stated he had not engaged in
Communist activity "in over 20 years", that over six million
Germans had been Communist members during his own membership,
that he is opposed to Communism as Communism is against the three
things that he considers most important in life, namely, "Love,
Freedom and Babies", that he was in favor of the execution of the
Rosenbergs but would not have wanted to be the executioner, that
he hated persons who "hid behind the Fifth Amendment", and that
his study of the face of Malenkov revealed that Malenkov to be a
psychopath. After a lengthy dissertation on Communism SUBJECT
said he was aware he was being tested as to his attitude toward
Communism and asked that he now be questioned as to the specific
reason for the interview.
SUBJECT was then shown the photos of LIO [deleted] and asked if
he knew of the Communistic activity of either. SUBJECT almost
instantly replied that he had never met either alien, that he had
no reason to believe either alien was a Communist, in fact he
believed both aliens were completely innocent and that the
suspicion was baseless, but that he had seen FEUCHTWANGER's photo
somewhere.
SUBJECT then lost self control. He paced the floor and pounded
the table. His face reddened and his speech became at times
incoherent. When asked if he had been offended in some way which
caused his excitement, SUBJECT said he had been. SUBJECT then
went on to say that in effect, he had been insulted in being
asked to merely identify a suspected Communist, that I did not
realize who he, SUBJECT, was, that I did not understand how minor
was the importance of questioning him concerning individual
Communists as he wanted it plainly understood that his personal
knowledge of Communism extended beyond the "political field" of
Communism and went deep into the heart of the philosophy of
present day Communism-dictatorship as compared with Marxism. From
that point on SUBJECT pounded on the theme that the danger to the
United States and the free world did not stem from the actions of
mere individual Communists, but because the United States failed
to understand and get to the root of the "Communist disease"...
--more in Steamshovel Press #12
Steamshovel Debris: Reich wrote a letter to the Immigration
Service as a follow-up to this visit. In it, he asked, "How is it
possible that many millions of decent, hard-working people are
falling prey to little political horsethieves of the Moscow or
any other kind?" He also identified three major dangers to
society: power drunkards, neurotic passivity, and the threat from
outer space.
Currently available in Steamshovel Press #11:
JFK, LSD and the CIA, Part 3, with rare photographs;
Chicago Conspiracy Researcher Sherman Skolnick Speaks!
Dr. Alan Cantwell on Genetically Engineered AIDS;
An Ugly American in Dallas? Ed Lansdale and the JFK Tramps
Inslaw-Whitewater Connection
BioSphere 2 Shakedown
John Mack's UFO Abductees
Beat Poet Lew Welch Alive?
Jack Nicholson and Wilhelm Reich
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MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX
By Nicholas A. Guarino
[List of victims from pamphlet]
[...continued...]
Victims #10 & #11: Kevin Ives and Don Henry, two Bryant,
Arkansas, teenagers, apparently were a bit too snoopy about the
air drops of dope and cash they had observed in the nearby
countryside at night (part of the Mena operation).
They were found on the morning of August 23, 1987, having been
run over by a train. "They fell asleep on the tracks," according
to state medical examiner Fahmy Malak, a Clinton appointee who
had earned the anger of the locals by pulling such stunts before.
(Remember when Clinton's late mother, anesthesia nurse Virginia
Kelley, [allegedly] caused the death of two patients by neglect?
Malak was the one who cleared her. Malak once even declared that
a decapitated man had died of "natural causes," a ruling Clinton
defended as a mere symptom of overwork.)
Malak's opinion caused a big ruckus locally. Eventually, the
boys' irate parents managed to get a second coroner's opinion,
and the official causes of death were changed to being stabbed in
the back and getting a crushed skull *before* the train came. At
this point...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victims #12 through #17: ...six local people came forward
independently, each claiming to have some special knowledge about
the deaths of the boys on the track.
All were slain before their testimony could do any good. Police
involvement is suspected in most cases, but not all:
** Keith Coney had been slashed in the neck and was fleeing
for his life when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a
truck. "A traffic fatality," police said.
** Gregory Collins was found shot in the face by a shotgun.
** Keith McKaskle was brutally stabbed at home -- 113 times.
(He knew he was doomed, and had told his friends and family
goodbye.)
** The burned body of Jeff Rhodes was found in the city
dump, shot in the head -- and with his hands, feet, and head
partly cut off.
** Richard Winters was killed by a man with a 12-gauge
sawed-off shotgun.
** Jordan Ketelson died of a shotgun blast to the head and
was found in the driveway of a house in Garland County. "A
suicide," the sheriff said.
Do you see a pattern here?
All in all, after ten years of Mena operations, not one arrest
was ever made, an accomplishment that is possible only when
someone controls the whole state like a collie controls sheep.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #18: Danny Casolaro was a reporter who was investigating
the connections between Mena, BCCI, Iran-Contra, Reagan's
"October Surprise," Park-O-Meter Co. (which [allegedly] made
dope-storage nose cones for the airplanes at Mena), and the ADFA
(Clinton's billion-dollar state bonds racket). He affectionately
called this network The Octopus. On August 10, 1991, just as he
was about to receive information linking Iran-Contra to the
Inslaw scandal, Danny was found with his wrists slit in the
bathtub of a hotel room in West Virginia. What a coincidence.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #19: Paul Wilcher, a Washington, D.C., lawyer, was deeply
investigating Mena and other scandals. He was scheduled for a
meeting with Danny Casolaro's former attorney, but on June 22,
1993, was found dead in his apartment, sitting on his toilet.
(The bathroom killer strikes again?)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #20: Ed Willey, the manager of Clinton's presidential
campaign finance committee who, according to a reliable source in
Texas, was involved with shuffling briefcases full of cash,
supposedly shot himself on November 30, 1993.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Victim #21: John A. Wilson, a ruggedly honest city councilman in
Washington, D.C., knew a lot about Clinton's dirty tricks.
According to my sources, he was preparing to come forward and
start talking about them. But then on May 19, 1993, he just
decided to hang himself instead.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
There are other possible victims, like Paula Gober, Jim Wilhite,
Stanley Heard, Steven Dickson, Timothy Sabel, William Barkley,
Scott Reynolds, Brian Hassey, and so on. But my evidence about
them isn't convincing, and I refuse to join those who call every
Clinton-related death a murder.
What *is* convincing is just the sheer numbers of untimely deaths
in the Clinton circle of influence -- plus a long string of
threats, attacks, beatings, break-ins, wiretaps, and other
intimidation. For example:
** Dennis Patrick of Kentucky has survived three attempts on
his life so far -- and is now in the federal witness
protection program. (Hang in there, Dennis -- and never
forget who's in charge of that program!)
He was the unwilling customer of Lasater & Company in Little
Rock, where tens of millions of dollars were traded (read:
laundered) in his account in 1985 and 1986. Only two
problems: He never knew what these trades were... and it
wasn't his money! (Coincidentally, the trading stopped when
Barry Seal was killed on February 19, 1986.)
And that's not even the scary part of the story. The fact
that may make your hair stand on end is that Dan Lasater is:
-- Bill Clinton's second-best friend
-- a convicted cocaine dealer
-- a noted host of lavish cocaine parties featuring very
young women
-- the employer of Bill's brother
-- and the head of Lasater & Co., which issued all $1
billion of Arkansas' state bonds in the '80s (but
only if each bond beneficiary first made a huge
donation to Clinton's operations or put Hillary on
retainer).
It is also alleged that Lasater laundered hundreds of
millions of drug dollars through that firm. But the day after
Dan's release from prison only six months later, Bill
pardoned him! Plus, while Dan was still in detention, he gave
power of attorney to run the company to Patsy Thomasson, who
was one of Bill's top administrative aides, and Bill
*continued* to funnel all the state's bonds through the
company -- another $664 million worth!
Lasater & Company was the major source of brokered deposits
in Madison Guaranty S&L.
And Patsy is now director of the White House Office of
Administration. God help us all.
** According to a sophisticated journal called *Heterodoxy*,
journalist L.J. Davis spent a week nosing around some
sensitive areas in Arkansas last February [1994]. Then on the
14th, as he entered his Little Rock hotel room to dress for
dinner, he was knocked cold. When he awoke on the entry floor
four hours later, his wallet was intact, but his notebook and
skull weren't. And there was no furniture within falling
distance to account for the darning-egg-size lump over his
left ear.
Three weeks later, he sent a draft of his story to *The New
Republic* BY MODEM. Three hours after that, his phone rang. A
rich baritone voice began, "What you're doing makes Lawrence
Walsh [, the investigator into Iran-Contra,] look like a rank
amateur."
"Who *is* this?" Davis demanded.
"Seems to me, you've gotten your bell rung too many times.
But did you hear what I just said?" (*click*)
Says Davis now, "I used to laugh at things like this -- until
I ended up on the [expletive] floor."
If all this sounds like tabloid trash to you, you're
absolutely right. And there's a very good reason: The people
behind these crimes *are* tabloid trash.
** Then there's the arson stuff. A nasty little blaze broke
out in the Little Rock offices of Peat Marwick, way up in the
fourteenth floor of Worthen Tower at midnight, January 24,
1994, just four days after Fiske's start as a Whitewater
investigator. It wasn't a *bad* fire, you see, just bad
enough to consume the area that held their 1986 audit of
Madison Guaranty. A former Peat Marwick executive tells me
that the word came down from Clinton, and they were most
definitely *forced* to destroy the documents.
And remember the flap about the medical records that Bill
refused to release? Word is, all that cocaine finally
destroyed his nasal passages. ("Allergies," Bill says.) He
spent huge amounts of time flying around the country with Dan
Lasater in his cocaine-laden jet and went to numerous parties
thrown by Lasater and others, some of which featured
"blizzards of cocaine," according to participants.
Brother Roger recently admitted doing six to eight grams a
day (and being a dealer for Lasater), but Bill's usage was
probably much less. Alas, we'll never know now. His doctor's
office files went up in flames. (Tsk, tsk. Those medical
offices. You *know* what a firetrap they are.)
Speaking of drugs: Sally Perdue, a former Miss Arkansas and
popular talk show hostess, has told the London *Sunday
Telegraph* that during her 1983 affair with Gov. Clinton
(verified by state trooper L.D. Brown), Bill would usually
smoke (*and* inhale) two or three ready-made marijuana joints
drawn from his cigarette case in a typical evening.
On one occasion he pulled out a baggie of cocaine and
prepared a "line" right on her table. "He had all the
equipment laid out like a real pro," she recalls. (A mid-
level Democratic Party leader warned Sally, before a witness,
that if she didn't keep quiet, he "couldn't guarantee what
might happen" to her "pretty little legs" when she went out
jogging.)
She also told her stories to Sally Jessy Raphael, but in a
rare move, the producers strangely decided not to broadcast
the videotaped program.
I've also talked with others who say they "got high with
Bill" *many* times -- including his personal drug supplier,
who is now being held in prison incommunicado in Leavenworth
by Janet Reno. When the time comes, they will all speak out.
In fact, the main problem may be half of Arkansas trying to
get their names in the headlines!
[...to be continued...]
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MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX
By Nicholas A. Guarino
[...continued...]
** For a change of pace, here's an incident that's non-
violent -- but does include the President himself.
Little Rock attorney Cliff Jackson, an acquaintance of Bill's
from his Oxford days, was approached in July, 1993, by Larry
Patterson and Roger Perry, two former members of Bill's
Arkansas security detail. They wanted to discuss blowing the
whistle on his sex escapades. (Other troopers backed up their
stories.)
As told to *New American* magazine, Jackson was discussing
their stories on the phone in August with another attorney,
Lynn Davis (not related to [L.J. Davis]), when...
...he became suspicious that the phone had been tapped.
He suggested to Davis that they meet in a nearby
restaurant. "The whole time we were there, this
suspicious-looking guy kept his eye on us," Jackson
recalls. "After we left, we were followed by this dark
Suburban with darkened windows and a Texas license
plate." Davis noted the vehicle's license plate number
and ran a check on it; no such license number was listed.
You've heard of unlisted phone numbers? Welcome to the
phantom surveillance world of unlisted license plates!
Just a few days later, the troopers received phone calls from
both Clinton and Buddy Young, former head of Gov. Clinton's
security detail. You can hear the borderline tone of Young's
calls in this sample from his tense call to Roger Perry, as
he reported it:
I represent the President of the United States. Why do
you want to destroy him over this? ... This is not a
threat, but I wanted you to know that your own actions
could bring about dire consequences.
Clinton's calls were no big secret, either. For instance,
journalist Gwen Ifill noted in the *New York Times*,
It turns out that some of the calls that were overworking
the White House switchboard operators [in the fall of
'93] were going not to Capitol Hill but to Arkansas state
troopers [to discuss] potentially embarrassing charges
about his marital infidelity.
The troopers related that Bill asked about the pending
allegations and offered them plush jobs. I think what he
wanted most was the kind of loyal silence and amnesia he gets
from people like Buddy Young, whom he appointed to a $93,000-
a-year FEMA job (not a bad promotion for a cop).
Indeed, there was a lot to be silent about. In addition to
numerous one-night ladies, Bill had long-term affairs with
six. One was a real bell-ringer: The *Los Angeles Times*
sifted through thousands of pages of state phone bills and
found 59 calls to her, including eleven on July 16, 1989. On
one government trip, he talked to her from his hotel room
from 1:23 a.m. to 2:57 a.m., then was back on the phone with
her at 7:45 that morning.
Bill's fallback defense is always that, as he claimed on
National Public Radio, "The only relevant questions are
questions of whether I abused my office, and the answer is
no."
Well. What do *you* say?
** By far the unluckiest guy in Arkansas is lawyer Gary
Johnson, 53, who was peacefully living at Quapaw Towers in
Little Rock when Gennifer Flowers moved in next door to him.
Now, Clinton denied on *60 Minutes* that he ever visited
Gennifer. But Gary had a home security system that included a
video camera pointed at his door. Unfortunately, it also
covered Gennifer's door, and after awhile he had several nice
visits on tape, showing Bill letting himself in with his own
key.
Either Bill finally noticed the camera, or the grapevine told
Bill's aides about it, because on June 26, 1992, three weeks
before the Democratic nomination, Gary got a loud knock at
the door. It was three husky, short-haired state troopers,
and they slugged him as they barged in, demanding the tape.
Gary promptly gave it to them, but they continued punching
him, breaking both his elbows, perforating his bladder,
rupturing his spleen so badly that doctors had to remove it,
beating him unconscious, and leaving him to die.
Now, here's a good question for you: Do you think Bill
Clinton actually picked up a phone and initiated this attack?
And here's a better question: *What* *difference* *does* *it*
*make*?
For obvious reasons of liberal loyalty, no one in the major media
wants to stick his neck out and be the first to do a major piece
that pins all these murders and attacks on the President of the
United States.
But sooner or later, the dam will break. The weight and scope of
the crimes are just too massive. Even if only *half* these
incidents turn out to be accidents or true suicides, Bill will
find it impossible to wiggle out of being implicated in the rest.
When some indicted hit man or functionary sees the evidence
piling up against him, he will sing like a sparrow to save his
own tail feathers...
How to Make $2 Million
Developing a God-Forsaken Tract of Land
Without Selling One Square Foot of It
When the media folk told you about Whitewater, they left out a
few amusing details.
So in a spirit of altruistic service and public education, I'm
going to let you in on the secrets of how to pull off a land
scam. Pay attention, because you've never heard this before.
A. Real estate developing is more fun when you can borrow all
your capital without having to pay it back... or even sell
any land. So to get started, you need two friends: one an
appraiser, one a banker.
B. Next, you find some dirt-cheap dirt. Anywhere in the
boondocks will do. In the Whitewater case, it was 230
acres of land along the White River for about $90,000.
(Some housing tract! It was fifty miles to the nearest
grocery store.)
C. Then you get your appraiser friend to do a bloated
appraisal. Hey, what are friends for? Let's say he pegs it
at $150,000.
D. You go to the bank and get the usual 80% loan. [CN --
e.g., 80% of $150,000 with the land as collateral] You now
have $120,000, so you pay off the land [($90,000)], and
you still have $30,000 in your pocket. You're on a roll.
E. You pay $5,000 to subdivide it and bulldoze in a few
roads. (Or if you know the ropes, you get the state to do
it, as Bill did to get a $150,000, two-mile access road.)
F. Voila! You now are the proud owner of a partly-developed
luxury estate community. So you call up your appraiser
friend again, and he re-evaluates it at a cool $400,000.
G. You hustle back to the bank [run by your friend McDougal]
and get a new 80% loan based on the new value. (Nothing
out of line so far. An 80% loan is standard, right?)
H. You draw up plans for some fine houses (which will never
be built.)
I. You get a new appraisal.
J. You get a new loan.
K. You make two or three phony homesite sales to friends. You
shuffle the funds around among your shell corporations and
bounce it back to your friends -- plus a little extra for
their help.
L. You get a new appraisal.
M. You get a new loan.
N. You do a "land flip," selling the whole thing to Company X
for $800,000, which sells it to Company Y for a million,
which sells it back to you for $1.25 million. (All these
companies are your friends.) And yes, this kind of thing
*did* happen in Whitewater and Madison. In fact,
Whitewater figures David Hale and Dean Paul once flipped
Castle Grande back and forth from $200,000 to $825,000 in
*one* *day*!
O. You get a new appraisal.
P. You get a new loan.
Q. Finally, your development corporation declares bankruptcy,
and the bank has to eat your loans because the money is
all gone, and since the record-keeping is so poor, nobody
knows where it went.
But weep not for the bankers. You pay them nicely -- perhaps a
third of the $2 to $3 million you skim off. Weep for the taxpayer
who bails out their banks.
Which is to say, in the case of Whitewater, weep for yourself.
-+- Does This Actually *Work*? -+-
Whitewater was just the first of a series, like a pilot for a
sitcom.
Using Whitewater as a prop, Bill and his partner Jim McDougal
milked -- by my rough estimate -- several million dollars from
the SBA [Small Business Administration] and at least five or six
banks and S&Ls, starting with the Bank of Kingston.
But their later ventures, bringing in Steve Smith and now-Gov.
Jim Guy Tucker, did even better. Campobello started with about
$150,000 in property and squeezed over $4 million in loans from
banks in about two years. Castle Grande began with $75,000 worth
of swamp land and cleared over $3 million. It never built
anything. The only human artifacts on it today are a few old
refrigerators and mattresses.
Why do I have information you haven't seen before? Because my
firm had $10 million in Madison Guaranty S&L, and I was thinking
of buying the Bank of Kingston. (I was already worth millions by
that time.) When I saw Kingston's financial statement, however, I
ran like a scalded cat.
And Madison was worse. You didn't have to be a Philadelphia CPA
to spot their money laundering, dead real estate liabilities
proudly listed as assets, huge amounts of 24-hour deposits from
brokers, and $17 million in insider loans. It was a nightmare.
Whitewater Development Corp. had at least an appearance of
sincerity. It even had TV commercials, starring Jim's
[McDougal's] striking young wife, Susan, in hot pants, riding a
horse. Another one showed her behind the wheel of Bill's restored
'67 Mustang.
But after Whitewater, the deals began dropping their frills like
a hooker in a hurry to get things over with. The RTC criminal
referral that Bill suppressed during his presidential campaign
cites such later corporations as *Tucker-Smith-McDougal*, *Smith-
Tucker-McDougal*, and *Smith-McDougal*. Catchy, eh? If it were
me, I would have called them *Son of Whitewater*,
*Whitewatergate*, and *Whitewater & Ponzi, L.P.*
[...to be continued...]
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MURDER, BANK FRAUD, DRUGS, AND SEX
By Nicholas A. Guarino
[...continued...]
-+- Short Report -+-
On their 1979 income tax, Hillary valued Bill's used undershorts
-- donated to charity at the end of their action-studded tour of
duty -- at two dollars a pair.
Plainly, we are dealing here with a couple that gives loving
attention to detail in matters of deductions.
As you may recall, however, Clinton has proclaimed over and over
that he simply "forgot" to deduct the $68,900 he claims he lost
on Whitewater. Commentators have been mystified by the paradox.
But it's no mystery to me. The reason is obvious: Bill didn't
deduct the $68,900 because he didn't lose a dime on Whitewater,
and he didn't want to do time for tax fraud. Period.
Jim McDougal put up all the money except for $500 -- and Bill
borrowed even *that*.
But weep not for Jim. Not only was he Bill's partner in
Whitewater, but he owned Madison Guaranty S&L, which was the
designated milk cow that provided most of the inflated loans.
Weep instead for the taxpayers -- like you and me -- who picked
up the $66 million tab when Madison folded.
-+- The Paperless Office Is Pioneered -+-
by the Rose Law Firm
Will Bill and Hillary go to jail for masterminding all the land
deals that fall under the label *Whitewater*?
I expect they will [CN -- Don't bet on it.] -- not because of
existing documents, but because of the testimony of subpoenaed
people.
The few remaining documents will play a supporting role, but
frankly, friend, there aren't many left. According to grand jury
testimony: On February 3, 1994, right after Fiske became special
counsel for Whitewater, the nice folks at the Rose Law Firm fired
up their high-speed Ollie-o-Matic paper shredder and ordered
courier Jeremy Hedges to slice 'n dice his way into the history
books by destroying twelve (12) cartons full of Whitewater
documents. As far as anyone knows, Rose now has no more
Whitewater records than you do.
Actually, a lot of the usual documents were never created in the
first place. For instance, there was no written partnership
agreement (don't try this at home). No transactions were written
up, even though Clinton's real estate agent says there were
$300,000 in sales. No deeds were ever recorded. And if any
interest was paid on bank loans, the payment checks are missing.
Plus, after Whitewater, Bill got very smart and kept his name
completely out of every subsequent deal he cut. But the
Whitewater monies, probably several million, ricocheted from
shell company to shell company like the basketball in a Harlem
Globetrotters warmup drill, and every dollar wound up in the
proper pocket. Beneficiaries included many of the biggest names
in Arkansas -- like Gov. Tucker, Seth Ward, and some very
powerful executives from outfits like Wal-Mart and Tyson's
Chicken -- Clinton campaign backers all. (Campaign records for
1982 and 1984, the two most suspicious years, have also been
studiously shredded.)
And Bill, who entered public office with nothing but debts, and
who never made over $35,000 a year as governor, is now worth
about four to five million. A real rags-to-riches, American
success story, isn't it? Kind of puts a lump in your throat.
But there's one other reason for Bill's success. In a word,
Hillary. Prepare to be shocked as you learn...
-+- Why the Feds Settled for $1 Million -+-
on $60 Million in Debts
You'll find this one hard to believe, so read carefully.
ITEM: When Madison Guaranty folded, it was somewhere between
$47 and $68 million in the hole. The tab has settled at $65
million.
ITEM: One of the biggest defaults was $600,000 in loans to
one of Madison's own directors, Seth Ward, who is the father-
in-law of Webb Hubbell. Webb happened to be Hillary's law
partner and until April [1994] was the No. 3 man at the
Justice Department -- and assigned to investigate Whitewater!
ITEM: When the RTC cleanup crew took over Madison, Hillary
had been on retainer to Madison [Guaranty S&L] for many
months.
Got it so far? O.K. Now, the RTC lawsuit sought $60 million from
Madison Guaranty's debtors. But here's what happened:
1. Hillary negotiated the RTC down *from* *$60* *million*
*to* *$1* *million*. What a talker!
2. Hillary then got the RTC to forgive the $600,000 debt Seth
Ward owed the RTC -- every penny of it -- thus leaving the
RTC with $400,000 [out of the $60 million owed.]
3. But wait! Hillary did these two deeds *as* *the* *counsel*
*for* *the* *RTC*, not Madison. Incredible as it sounds to
those of us who have to live in the real world, Hillary
got herself hired by the RTC, and in *that* position, from
the GOVERNMENT side, she talked them down to $1 million.
4. Her fee for the RTC job was (pure coincidence) $400,000.
Which left the government with $400,000 minus $400,000...
or in technical accounting terms, zippo.
5. And who do you suppose was the mastermind who conned the
RTC into hiring Madison Guaranty's own Hillary to
prosecute Madison Guaranty? None other than the late Vince
Foster! When he made his pitch to the RTC, he neglected to
tell them about Hillary's retainer with Madison Guaranty.
In fact, he even wrote them a letter stating that the Rose
Law Firm didn't represent thrifts!
Vince and Hillary were, by the way, very, uh, close. Not only
were they partners at Rose, but there's no shortage of people who
saw them hugging and smooching in public. Arkansas troopers say
that when Bill took a trip on state business, Vince was often at
the mansion gates within minutes -- and would stay till the wee
hours. They also spent a few weekends together at the Rose
vacation cabin in the mountains. And when Hillary filed for
divorce from Bill in 1986, Vince was right there at her side.
(She withdrew the suit [later on].)
-+- 178 Years in Club Fed -+-
Nobody ever accused Bill Clinton of being stupid.
As proof, look at the Congressional hearings. What a hoot! Bill
had them stacked so that fully 99% of all Whitewater crimes were
off limits!
This left our dignified Congressmen sternly chasing the remaining
1% of petty misdemeanors with hardly a mention of fourteen years
of felonies: shell games, killings, break-ins, coverups, threats,
bribes, thefts, check kiting, payoffs, arson, money laundering,
fraud, influence of testimony, tampering with witnesses, you name
it...
And Bill managed to focus 100% of the attention on [Roger] Altman,
[Bernard] Nussbaum, [Lloyd] Cutler and others, with none of it on
himself. You have to admit, that's pretty smart maneuvering.
In February, *The American Spectator* added up two pages of
Bill's alleged crimes, and the total potential penalties came to
$2.5 million in fines and 178 years in prison. And *they* just
listed the piddly stuff, like tax fraud and soliciting bribes;
they didn't even mention the heavier incidents I listed above!
(They did include a short roster of Hillary's much lighter
penalties, totaling only $1.2 million and 47 years.)
Is such punishment excessive? I think not. Even if you ignore the
mayhem, the Clinton economic damage has been severe. Counting
Clinton's Arkansas Development Finance Authority, which never
awarded a bond grant without a major campaign contribution and
Bill's signature, he sucked over a billion dollars from state and
federal taxpayers.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Please forgive me for sounding dramatic, but this is a dark day
for the republic.
I apologize for giving you such an avalanche of appalling news.
God knows, I've tried to keep my tone somewhat light, but I
realize that you are probably still alarmed.
Unfortunately, I must now go on to tell you about the impact all
this is going to have on your own financial future, and that
could be the worst news of all -- by far.
But unlike all the depressing matters you've just read, there is
a bright silver lining to it. Yes, I do think it's the darkest
day for the republic since World War II. [CN -- Guarino goes on
from here to state that "the troubles ahead" will ironically give
you a great opportunity to improve your finances. He tells the
reader to open "the enclosed envelope" which I, unfortunately, do
not have because I received this pamphlet from someone else.]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Footnote: I [Nicholas A. Guarino] serve notice that I am not
depressed in the least, and that if anything happens to me, I
publicly accuse Bill Clinton and his circle of power.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
CN -- There ends Mr. Guarino's narrative. For the record, I also
"serve notice" that I am looking forward to the denouement of the
Clinton mysteries and therefore if anything happens to me I would
miss the final curtain -- a circumstance I would much regret.
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
One of the largest law firms may break apart because of
corruption.
Headquartered in Chicago, Winston & Strawn, with some 400
lawyers, also has offices in Washington, DC, New York,
Switzerland, Paris, [and] Saudi-Arabia. The chairman of the firm
has been Jim Thompson, formerly chief federal prosecutor in
Chicago and [former] Illinois Governor.
The former managing partner of Winston & Strawn, Gary L.
Fairchild, has pleaded guilty to embezzling upwards of $800,000!
He apparently stole the funds with a clear conscience because of
also rampant corruption at the firm which he observed right
along! Fairchild could finger Thompson himself, and others! So,
to avoid getting assassinated, Fairchild pleaded guilty and, now
get this -- put *himself* into the jail even before the judge
sentenced him.
This comes in the wake of our exclusive stories, on cable TV,
about "China White", the high-purity heroin flooding into the
United States by way of Joliet, just south of Chicago.
("Big Jim" [Thompson], by the way, became Governor with
Rockefeller money.)
So, while Governor, Thompson reportedly arranged to bail out the
First National Bank of Chicago, which had loaned billions and
billions of dollars to mainland China on the promise that they
would pay back with gold, supposedly from their western
provinces! Well, they couldn't pay back, so the dope helped
[i.e., "white gold"].
In 1986, Governor "Big Jim" disguised the dope smuggling deal as
a proposed Chinese-owned soybean processing plant, supposedly to
be built in Joliet! Some of the various Chinese technicians that
came, that kept coming here were, reportedly, actually with Tewu,
the Chinese secret police.
As we told you, the American espionage agencies tried to stop an
elite Treasury [Department] unit from investigating "China White"
in Joliet. They wanted to keep watching the Chinese secret
police!
Disgruntled by interference by CIA and NSA, the unit turned over
thousands of documents to a public interest reform group.
Now, three Winston & Strawn partners and some eight support staff
say [that] internal documents tend to prove the massive dope
smuggling funded the law firm's expansion *and* is coordinated
through the firm's worldwide facilities.
Also, "China White", the huge money is used, in part, to corrupt
federal judges in the District Court and the U.S. Court of
Appeals, Seventh Circuit, in Chicago. So, is it any wonder that
Winston & Strawn seem to win cases in the federal court without
much effort, huh?
By the way, while Thompson was Governor, there was an incident at
his lavish home on Chicago's near north side. Two burglars
somehow defeated the security system and stole $20,000 and two
kilos of cocaine from Thompson's house! Thompson's bodyguard,
however, caught them. *But*, the case was "hushed up" in a branch
of the criminal court system here.
The "China White" dope smuggling was aided and abetted by Robert
Tezak, a super-rich business tycoon from Joliet and the Cayman
Islands. Tezak owned a card game company and, Tezak, along with
the Rockefellers, *owned* Jim Thompson!
Tezak was "railroaded" into a lengthy federal prison term to
silence him. Naturally, Tezak's sell-out "defense" attorney
was... "Big Jim's" crony, Dan K. Webb [CN -- Webb is now part of
Rostenkowski's defense team. By the way, "Rosty" wants his
upcoming trial moved to Chicago, supposedly because it will be
too difficult for him and his defense team to travel to
Washington.]
What can you do? Well call up your favorite news fakers and tell
them to stop kidding us about "Big Jim" Thompson being so
wonderful! [CN -- What else can you do? Get some friends and
picket your local news fakers, carrying signs like "Hey, News
Fakers! Stop Kidding Us!"]
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "The Toxic Waste Gestapo and the Wife of a Corrupt
Federal Judge Here". (312) 731-1505.
New message Saturday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
After the murder of President Lincoln, every President that
followed was involved in the assassination conspiracy and/or
cover-up in one way or another. Likewise, after President Kennedy
had his brains blown out in an open car in Dallas, for 30 years
thereafter each President, in turn, was involved in some way in
the murder and/or cover-up.
Lyndon Johnson was in business with war contractors who wanted
Kennedy and his southeast asia peace program dead. Some details
are in the sarcastic play and book called "McBird"(?).
Nixon falsely stated that he left Dallas that morning! He was
supposedly there as a lawyer for the PepsiCo bottlers having a
convention. A former PepsiCo director, however, said Nixon tried
to conduct business *all* that afternoon, even when everyone else
was in shock after JFK's murder. Nixon attended an assassination
planning meeting on Murchison's ranch, near Dallas, three days
ahead of time! The murder cabal, called "The Committee", is
detailed in the European best-seller, *Farewell, America*, a book
-- now get this -- not allowed to be circulated in the United
States.
Some of the assassination funding went through Murchison's
laundry in Chicago, called, at the time, South Shore National
Bank.
During the Watergate affair, President Nixon tried to blot out
some 18-and-a-half minutes of White House tapes where he talks
about Dallas, calling it by the code words "Bay of Pigs" [i.e.,
"the Bay of Pigs thing"]. The sound was retrieved, however, by
European scientists. Nixon used the secret details of Dallas to
try to blackmail CIA and become a "super-President" -- one of the
reasons he was framed-up by CIA double agents at the Watergate
Hotel.
Nixon was followed into the oval office by Gerald Ford who had
sat on the infamous Warren Commission, blaming a lone assassin
for the murder.
For fear of *more* such murders, the Kennedy clan opposed true
details circulating. Their crony, President Jimmy Carter, went
along with the cover-up.
In 1960, when Nixon ran against Kennedy for President, Ronald
Reagan wrote a handwritten letter to Nixon. It was a death
warrant for JFK. Retrieved by us [CCCC] out of the Nixon archives
before they closed, the Reagan letter says, "Kennedy is
subversive" and implies that, if Kennedy is elected, he should be
liquidated. Well, Kennedy was, three years later.
Also, when Ronald Reagan was California Governor, he refused to
extradite key assassination witnesses needed by New Orleans
district attorney Jim Garrison in his JFK conspiracy
investigation. Garrison's travail is in the Oliver Stone movie,
"JFK".
According to a recently released FBI document, George Bush (of
CIA since 1959) was part of a cover-up of the anti-Castro Cuban
complicity in the Dallas "hit". Also, during the 11-and-a-half
months Bush was CIA director, some 200 still-alive witnesses with
knowledge of the Dallas plot were themselves "snuffed out".
*And*, Clinton goes along with the cover-up.
Reporters that "went along" with the lone assassin fakery were
rewarded by being pushed to the top of the mass media --
including Dan Rather, Robert McNeil and Cokie Roberts. (More
details in a future story.)
Do the press whores know the truth? *Of* *course* *they* *do*;
the answer is *yes*.
Call up your local news fakers and tell them to stop kidding us.
[CN -- Or, alternatively, print out this missive and mail it to
the news fakers to let them know that you are not being fooled.]
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "Accidents of History, or Conspiracies?" (312) 731-
1505.
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FEMINISM: MASK FOR MARXISM?
Tom Valentine's guest on *Radio Free America* (Shortwave, 5.065
MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on December 28, 1994 was Andrea Pearson,
editor-in-chief of a newsletter called "Americans In Exile"
[contact info to be included below]. Ms. Pearson has some non-
politically correct views on feminism, etc. Note that views
expressed in the following do not necessarily reflect my own
views or those of Conspiracy Nation.
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[Awesome sounds of John Phillip Souza's "Stars and Stripes Forever"]
ANNOUNCER:
It's *Radio Free America*, the talk show for intelligent
Americans, with your host, Tom Valentine.
*Radio Free America* is brought to you by *The Spotlight* [CN --
Note: Throw mud here.] Call 1-800-522-6292 for your subscription.
And now, the newspaper that "tells it like it is" presents Tom
Valentine.
TOM VALENTINE:
Hello, everybody. Welcome back, to *Radio Free America*.
And before I get to my guest and to our topic tonight, I want to
bring up something that I mentioned in the first hour.
The *New York Times* lead editorial today [12/28/94] should be
framed and hung on the mantle like the antlers of a trophy animal
by a big hunter, down at *The Spotlight*. "The Miscalculation in
Chechnya," it says.
"President Boris Yeltsin was justified," (get that), "...was
justified in using force against the breakaway Russian republic
of Chechnya."
So, right off the bat, the opinion of the owners of the *New York
Times* organization is, that Yeltsin was "justified" in this that
we're watching on the media right now.
And it was *The Spotlight* that pointed out yesterday, or this
week's *Spotlight* points out that the bankers are behind the
move on it, and that Russia got the nod from the united States.
In fact, on December the 11th, Boris Yeltsin was given the green
light to go ahead and attack, according to *The Spotlight*, by
none other than Strobe Talbot of the Clinton administration!
The very last paragraph of this long, rambling [*New York Times*]
editorial chastising Boris Yeltsin for being clumsy as he carries
out the orders from the boardroom... The very last paragraph
says, "Washington has an interest in keeping Russia and 'reform'
intact." It does. And this is the wonderful paragraph here, that
belongs on the mantle: "After initially giving Mr. Yeltsin a
green light for military intervention [in Chechnya]..."
They just got through chewing him out for being clumsy and his
application of the military and his not finding a political
solution. But they're admitting that Mr. Yeltsin was given a
green light by the Clinton administration. Well how is it the
Clinton administration can give the Russian bear a green light to
kill people if it isn't somebody higher up? And I don't mean God,
but people playing God with all the money -- the bankers.
This editorial, folks, you should get it and frame it. Today's
*New York Times* editorial on Chechnya. It's an excellent piece
to prove our point.
Now. We gotta change gears, change subject, totally. On *Radio
Free America*, whenever I have open phones in the last few years,
one of my, I would call 'em regular callers, is a lovely lady.
She calls in from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. And she always has
something intelligent to contribute. And so last week when she
called and we were talking, I asked her if she'd be a guest. And
she has agreed to be a guest. So I want to introduce Andrea, from
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Of course, we always use only first
names of callers. However, Andrea, you have stepped out of the
anonymity of caller-ship and you have... Your last name is
"Pearson". Andrea Pearson, you are no longer anonymous.
Welcome to *Radio Free America*.
ANDREA PEARSON:
Good evening, Tom.
VALENTINE:
First of all, tell me a little about yourself. Why is it that you
have this consuming interest in the, the movement of the
feminists and their influence on our society?
PEARSON:
Well it's my observation that, under the banner of feminism,
Marxism and Socialism are being imposed on the American people.
And not only that, but feminism and the culture that has replaced
the American culture that we once had, is a paradigm. And because
men are so socialized to protect women from things that are
offensive, and to give them good things -- that no one speaks
against it.
So...
VALENTINE:
Wow... Wait a minute, wait a minute. What you just said is very
interesting.
Because we men... And if you're brought from a traditional
family, you are taught by your parents that uh, the "ladies
first" and to have courtesy and that the distaff side of things
is to get all of your attention. And we *do* for our women.
That's the purpose of a man being alive. We're taught that.
And you're saying that, because of that, these feminists have an
edge in pushing their agenda.
PEARSON:
...the Marxists in our government and in the U.N. are
manipulating the male nature in order to impose Marxist policies
and programs and [to] influence our belief systems and change our
culture. I think it's one of the most destructive forces that has
ever happened in the history of the world. And...
VALENTINE:
This is gonna be very interesting, Andrea. We have a break coming
up. But already, I'm interested.
My guest is Andrea Pearson, from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. And
the gender war, being used on us. I'm Tom Valentine, this is
*Radio Free America*.
[...break...]
All right, we are back, live. And my guest is Andrea Pearson. And
she's out of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
And before we go anywhere further with your thesis and so forth,
Andrea... When you say "Marxist"... Now that has a different
connotation to a lot of different people. My idea of a Marxist is
one thing, yours may be another. How are you using "Marxism",
"Marxist"?
PEARSON:
Well in the writings of Karl Marx and other Communists, they
write about their belief systems in many different ways. For
instance, in terms of borders, who owns property, who can own
land, who owns the operation of the industry, [who] controls
that, and so forth.
But they also have very strong beliefs about marriage. They
believe that marriage is a system imposed by a patriarchal,
capitalistic system, by men, onto women. And that it's something
that is *used* by men, against women, by force.
VALENTINE:
So you're using "Marxist" as "those who have taken the ideas of
Karl Marx and others, and put them together to centralize things
and to break down standard traditions, such as the basic, nuclear
family, for the purposes of the State or the people in charge at
that central headquarters running everything."
PEARSON:
Well not only do these people want to have power over us. They
want to destroy the American economy. They want to destroy our
borders. They want to make restrictions about who can own
property and about how industry is regulated.
VALENTINE:
Well that's what our government's doing now. And we don't have
any Marxists in the American government -- ha, ha, ha.
PEARSON:
We certainly do. And they are also doing very severe damage,
through legislation, to the American family. And to, also, our
belief systems, our culture. When you think about America, you
think about its culture and its rituals [CN -- also its colorful
colloquialisms, so *verboten* now in our major universities]. And
in terms of gender politics, what you might think of is, in the
1950s, the way a man would tip his hat to a lady or open a door
for her. Or the way daddy felt about his little girl. And how
boys, or children, inter-related with each other in terms of sex
roles.
Well the U.N. has an interest in that. And they have an interest
and it's very strong. There's a Convention on the Elimination of
all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. And we, as a nation,
have had a Congress and President who have decided that they want
to impose that, as the force of law, upon the American people.
And what *my* contention is, is that the basic premise of
feminism is faulty. And that women were never discriminated
against in America. And that they actually *chose* a different
role: That they preferred to live in marriages. And they
preferred to raise their own children. And they preferred this in
an equal relationship before God -- although their role was
different.
VALENTINE:
All right. That's a very fair beginning.
Now you say legislation had something to do with this. How about
giving me an example.
PEARSON:
Well, let me just read you a short list of some of the more
severe ones: Affirmative Action for Women (which is preference
for employment for women), Campus Security Act, the Gender Equity
in Education Act, the Violence Against Women Act, the Fair Pay
Act (which is now pending, before Congress), and the U.N.
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination
Against Women. *That*, uh U.N. Convention, is something that all
of these previous laws that I mentioned, are... those things are
mentioned in the [U.N.] Convention. And what our Congress is
doing is bringing us into accordance with global law concerning
men and women.
VALENTINE:
Do you think that this movement is the reason that the man can't
make enough money to support a family anymore; that both the man
and the wife have to work to make ends meet today?
PEARSON:
I think that the destruction of the economy was deliberate, in
order to create a crisis whereby they could lure first the man,
and then the woman, away from the children. Because a basic part
of Communism and people who believe in Communism is that the
children belong in the care of the State.
VALENTINE:
All right. Let's take this: The Gender Equity Act. You mentioned
that before.
PEARSON:
Well this is a *monstrous* piece of legislation. And just to
begin with, with that: If you look at the studies which preceded
the Gender Equity in Education Act and you find out what kind of
research was done to justify this massive piece of intrusive
legislation, what you find is that the statistics were grossly
distorted in order to achieve the answers that the radical
Marxist-Feminists wanted. And so, what we ended up with was a
study that said, "Girls suffer greatly in our school system and
in our culture. They have terrible blows to their self-esteem."
And that, in areas like math and science, "they're greatly
damaged and hindered by the American system" -- when, in fact,
that's really not true.
[...to be continued...]
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I received the following from a CN reader who wishes to remain
anonymous. What I plan to do is post the entire document over a
period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 11.
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CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
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35. Cooper, William, Behold A Pale Horse, Sedona, Arizona, Light
Technology Publishing, 1991. Cooper is a former United States Naval
Intelligence Briefing Team member, lecturer, and author. Summary:
Documents that in his attempts to get this information to the public, he
has been driven off the road twice by the same black limousine, the
second accident resulting in scars on his face and the loss of his leg.
He and his wife have been followed and harassed, with death threats on
their answering device, phone calls in the middle of the night, men
driving government cars stopping to ask who lives there, county sheriff's
deputy asking the postal clerk for information on Cooper's post office
box in an effort to discover where he lives, and strange people showing
up at their door in the middle of the night. "In 1988 Bill decided to
'talk' due to events then taking place worldwide, events which he had
seen plans for back in the early 70s. Since Bill has been 'talking' he
has correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the
Berlin Wall, and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on
record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His
information comes from Top Secret documents that he read while with the
Intelligence Briefing Team and from over 17 years of thorough research."
In his book, he strongly encourages people to not stop with the reading
of his book, but to do their own research.
The thrust of the book is presenting documentation and proofs
that there are secret plans in high places for the creation of a
totalitarian socialistic state, wherein the people are slave labor and
the elite run things for their own convenience and luxury. The list of
those who comprise the conspiratorial elite has existed for many
centuries and has gone underground and changed names upon discovery. The
list includes: "the Order of the Quest, the Jason Society, the
Roshaniya, the Qabbalah, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta, the
Knights of Columbus, the Jesuits, the Masons, the Ancient and Mystical
Order of Rosae Crucis, the Illuminati, the Nazi Party, the Communist
Party, the Executive Members of the Council on Foreign Relations, The
Group, the Brotherhood of the Dragon, the Rosicrucians, the Royal
Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the
Bilderberg Group, the Open Friendly Secret Society (the Vatican), the
Russell Trust, the Skull & Bones, the Scroll & Key, the Order - they are
all the same and all work toward the same ultimate goal, a New World
Order." The cults which call themselves "illuminated" are also involved.
Apparently not all who are members know of these plans, only
those in the upper echelons. These are all secret societies that
practice degrees of initiation, "and that is the key." It is through
their initiations that they discover who can be trusted and who not. The
lower echelons are an "innocent" organization of good works put into
place to form a safe buffer between themselves and the unsuspecting public.
One initiation rite involves asking the candidate to spit on the
Christian cross. If he refuses, then he is told, "You have made the
right choice, as a true adept would never do such a terrible thing," and
that candidate never advances any further. If he does spit on the cross,
then that candidate is congratulated and promoted.
In his book Cooper includes secret plans that he read while in
Naval Intelligence. One of them, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, was a
paper that became public in 1979 after being found in an IBM copier
bought at a surplus sale. The top secret papers Cooper read "explained
that 'Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars' is the doctrine adopted by the
Policy Committee of the Bilderberg Group during its first known meeting
in 1954."
This doctrine outlines a plan for "tak[ing] control of the world
by the use of economic 'silent weapons' in a form of 'quiet warfare' and
reduce the economic inductance of the world to a safe level by a process
of benevolent slavery and genocide....[since the general public] has
become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight
upon the face of the earth,"
The paper is a "formal Declaration of War by the Illuminati upon
the Citizens of the United States of America," only instead of a frontal
assault with regular bullets, they plan to use economic bullets,
computerized espionage on American citizens, a "permanent 'tattooed' body
number" for each citizen, eliminating advanced economic theory from
higher education in order to keep the masses from discovering their war,
open-ended social programs in order that "those who get hooked on the
economic drug, must go to the elite for a fix," creating inflation by
printing more money than the GNP, encouraging wars in which the creditor
is killed, encouraging impulse buying on the part of American citizens by
promoting TV ads where citizens are spoken to as if they are uncritical
and impulsive twelve year olds.
This plan delineates surveillance of citizens through phone taps,
analysis of garbage, observing children's behavior in school, marriage
and birth certificates, memberships in organizations, political
affiliation, checking accounts, credit-card purchases, credit
information, welfare and social security information ("the citizen will
almost always make the collection of information easy if he can operate
on the 'free sandwich principle' of 'eat now, and pay later,'"
information obtained from IRS, OSHA, Census, U.S. mail, crime records,
hospital records, psychiatric records, credit rating, police records,
driving records, insurance information, polls and surveys.
This plan also delineates use of this information as "excuses for
investigation, search, arrest, or employment of force to modify behavior."
The plan for secrecy includes diversionary tactics such as
disengaging the public's "attention from real issues" through creating
preoccupations of "sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the
TV and the newspapers," manipulations of the media by keeping citizens
"captivated by matters of no real importance", of schools by keeping any
"real mathematics, real enonomics, real law, and real history" from being
taught, of entertainment by "keep[ing] the public entertainment below a
sixth-grade level", and of work by "keep[ing] the public busy, busy,
busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals".
The paper goes on to say, "When the government is able to collect
tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an
indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to
enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified
indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income
tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the
government." Speaking of the citizenry, "Simply put, they want a human
god to eliminate all risk from their life, pat them on the head, kiss
their bruises, put a chicken on every dinner table, clothe their bodies,
tuck them into bed at night, and tell them that everything will be
alright [sic] when they wake up in the morning." They equate a
politician with this human god who will promise everything and deliver
nothing.
Of the citizenry, it states, "they pay taxes to finance a
professional association of hit men collectively called politicians, and
then complain about corruption in government....They want authority...but
they will not accept responsibility or liability. So they hire
politicians to face reality for them." The Illuminati believes that a
nation becomes divided into two nations, one docile, the other
political. "The political sub-nation remains attached to the docile
sub-nation, tolerates it, and leaches its substance until it grows strong
enough to detach itself and then devour its parent." They believe the
purpose of the draft "is to instill, by intimidation, in the young males
of a society the uncritical conviction that the government is omnipotent"
and that it was "devised by the middle-aged and the elderly for the
purpose of pressing the young into doing the public dirty work. It
further serves to make the youth as guilty as the elders, thus making
criticism of the elders by the youth less likely....It is marketed and
sold to the public under the label of 'patriotic=national' service."
They believe that the end always justifies the means as to their
endeavors of getting complete control over the citizenry. "The
bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the
methodology of the bookkeeping." The ignorant public "are beasts of
burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent."
Their rallying cry is a quote from Mayer Amschel Rothschild
(1743-1812), "Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not
who makes its laws." They worship Rothschild's discovery that "when you
assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you," or in other
words, that "currency...had the required appearance of power that could
be used to induce people...into surrendering their real wealth in
exchange for a promise of greater wealth (instead of real compensation).
They would put up real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory
notes....Mr. Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had
backing for, so long as he had someone's stock of gold as a persuader to
show his customers....Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of
the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of
contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used
to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to
determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give
him control of its economic system got his support. Collection of debts
was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor....When the
subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs,
they, of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor."
Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit priest and an Illuminati financed by
Rothschild, said, "The great strength of our Order lies in its
concealment; let it never appear in its own name, but always covered by
another name, and another occupation."
Regarding their whole plan, "the public might instinctively feel
that something is wrong, but because of the technical nature of the
silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or
handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to
cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend
themselves against it."
Their Table of Strategies includes plans to: "Keep the public
ignorant...create preoccupation, attack the family unit, give less cash
and more credit and doles, attack the privacy of the church...minimize
the tax protest...maximize control, and collapse the currency." Their
efforts to keep the public ignorant include "keeping them confused,
disorganized, and distracted....The general rule is that there is profit
in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best
approach is to create problems and then offer the solutions."
Cooper points out that this Illuminati worships Lucifer as God,
the last mystery revealed to members. "If you do not believe in God,
Lucifer, or Satan, you must understand that there are great masses of
people who do. I do not believe in racism but millions do and their
beliefs and actions based upon those beliefs will affect me."
The Illuminati and Masons have had members who have written books
in the past revealing their secrets. One such member revealed "that the
Freemasons were pledged to...strike down the Church, the State, and the
freedom of the masses." One of their methods for doing so is
infiltration of respected and powerful organizations. Scotland Yard and
the Vatican have each at some point issued a ban on Masons being in their
employ because of their fear of being infiltrated. The Vatican has
recently lifted that several-hundred-year ban. "Many high-level members
of the Vatican are now Freemasons....ALL of the intelligence officers
that I worked for while in Naval Intelligence were Masons." A book by
Piers Compton called The Broken Cross "traces the infiltration of the
Catholic Church by the Illuminati."
The present Pope, John Paul II, was a chemist who helped develop
and sell cyanide gas for the I.G. Farben Chemical Company. He sold it to
the Nazis to use in Auschwitz to exterminate millions of Jewish people.
"After the war the salesman, fearing for his life, joined the Catholic
Church and was ordained a priest in 1946." Later he became a bishop in
Poland. "After a 30-day reign his predecessor was assassinated and our
ex-cyanide gas salesman assumed the papacy...."
A close friend of this Pope, Dr. Wolf Szmuness, was "the
mastermind behind the November/78 to October/79 and March/80 to
October/81 experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials conducted by the
Center for Disease Control in New York, San Francisco and four other
American cities that loosed the plague of AIDS upon the American people."
"The 1953 report of the California Senate Investigating Committee
on Education stated: 'So-called modern Communism is apparently the same
hypocritical world conspiracy to destroy civilization that was founded by
the illuminati, and that raised its head in our colonies here at the
critical period before the adoption of our Constitution.' The California
Senate understood that communism is the work of the Illuminati. They
failed to realize that the Council on Foreign Relations and the
Trilateral Commission are also the work of the Illuminati."
"The executive members of the Council on Foreign Relations are
the real elect in this country. George Bush is a member of the Order.
Surprised? You shouldn't be. His father was also a member who helped
finance Hitler." The oath that members take absolves them of and
supersedes all other oaths. "The CFR is a secret society in that it
forbids the taking of notes or the publishing of minutes of its
meetings." A 1930's attempt by the Knights of Malta, "the militia of the
Pope," to infiltrate the executive branch of U.S. government is discussed
in Congressional hearings held at the time to investigate. Yet, this
information is excluded from all history books. "President Reagan spoke
at the annual Knights of Malta dinner."
The headquarters for the Bilderberg Group is in Switzerland, "the
only European country never invaded or bombed during World Wars I and
II. Switzerland is the seat of world power. The goal of the Bilderberg
Group is a one-world totalitarian socialist government and economic
system." Their goal is fascism.
These secret societies, "operating in secrecy and infiltrating
every level of government and vital industry including the press, the
elect manipulate the people and nations of the world toward any direction
desired."
Cooper includes in his book a copy of an oath of initiation of
one of these secret orders to demonstrate their subversive nature. He
also includes a copy of the Secret Treaty of Verona, which was entered
into the Congressional Record in 1916. It is an agreement that was made
in 1822 between Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia to suppress
constitutional, representative self-governments in whatever countries
they may exist or might begin. Their methods included destroying free
speech, destroying and suppressing the press, universal censorship,
waging war on those countries with representative governments, sustaining
the cooperation of the Pope and clergy to use religion to help keep
nations in passive obedience, financing and funding war against those
countries with representative governments. The monarchs who signed this
treaty were ultimately deposed. "Most of these families are wealthy
beyond belief and may be more powerful today than when they sat upon
thrones. Today they are known collectively as the Black Nobility."
Privately these families refuse to recognize any right to rule except
their own. The fact that this treaty was made long ago does not mean it
is void.
Another area covered by Cooper is that of martial law. Through
an interlocking set of presidential orders, some of which are secret,
martial law has been extended to be all-inclusive and very broad. So,
too, the legal causes that would justify any president to declare martial
law have become so broad as to need no reasonable excuse. All references
to war or threat of war as possible causes have been removed and only
domestic crises are covered.
Any domestic excuse could be used, including food shortages, the
drug war, financial crisis, international tension, or oil spills. Once
the national emergency is declared by the president, the power to
implement all these executive orders automatically revert to FEMA. These
executive orders make provisions to take over communications media, power
sources, food resources, farms, all transportation, health, education,
and welfare, airports, aircraft, building materials, railroads,
waterways, petroleum, to mobilize all civilians into work brigades, to
register all civilians, and to relocate communities. FEMA also gets the
power to direct and use other federal agencies.
"The brains behind this contingency plan for a police state were
the members of the CFR and TC....The FEMA Advisory Board is dominated by
Professor Samuel P. Huntington....He wrote the "Seminal Peace" for the
Trilateral Commission in the mid-1970s, recommending that democracy and
economic development be discarded as outdated ideas." Huntington feels
that there are "potentially desirable limits to economic and democratic
growth. His "ideas were rewritten into National Security Decision
Directive 47" which "ordered preparedness measures that involved the
waiving or modification of socioeconomic regulations that delay emergency
responses and that should receive priority attention."
Also included in Cooper's book is the statement of Dr. William R.
Pabst from Houston, Texas. In 1976 he filed suit on behalf of the people
of the United States protesting the conspiratorial plot to destroy the
United States as we know it. His complaint mentions a concentration camp
program set up by the Department of Defense, and a constitution for the
"Newstates of America" designed by the Rockefeller-funded Center for the
Study for Democratic Institutions. This constitution mentions national
emergency 134 times, has no Bill of Rights, and the right to bear arms is
removed. Pabst says "Congressman Larry McDonald has revealed to Congress
that various guerrilla and terrorist groups were being financed by the
federal governXnt," which could trigger martial law, under which the
State Department would be in charge of preventing escape from the U.S. as
well as a national police force and use of prisoners for slave labor, the
Treasury Department would be in charge of collecting cash and non-cash
items, and the Commerce Department "would be responsible for
expropriation, selection and international distribution of commodities
(which would be the actual looting of the United States)...."
Pabst cites evidence of troops being trained to seize municipal,
county and state, governments. He also cites evidence that the L.E.A.A.
and the Police Foundation "are prime movers toward implementing a
national police force" which would be responsible for "taking over the
administration of local and state governments. That program is
'Operation Cable Splice....'" Operation Cable Splice provides that
"anyone who attacks the State - even verbally- becomes a revolutionary
and an enemy by definition." All military personnel involved in Cable
Splice training were ordered to train in civilian clothing in order to
prevent adverse publicity. The operation includes plans for
"confiscation of privately-owned weapons and ammunition."
Pabst says there are Pentagon files on 25 million Americans which
include "political, sociological, economic and psychological profiles."
The Uniform Mental Health Act allows for the governor to have anyone
picked up and held in an asylum while Health, Education and Welfare
determines "whether or not you were mentally disturbed because of your
nationalistic tendencies, your love for the United States, or your
adherence to any political or religious doctrine." The U.S. Public
Health Service is prepared to take over any and all mental health
facilities and use them as tools of repression on non-violent political
activists.
Pabst feels that unless you track all the small details of each
and every finger and toe of the government, you may miss the big
picture. He makes the following analogy: A man and his wife work at a
baby carriage factory in Nazi Germany. They are going to have a baby,
but the Nazis won't let anyone buy a baby carriage. "The man decided he
would secretly collect one part from each department and assemble the
carriage himself. When this was done he and his wife gathered up the
pieces and assembled it. When they were finished they did not have a
baby carriage; they had a machine gun."
Cooper outlines unconstitutional aspects contained within the
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. These include: A loophole left up to the
judge's discretion for warrantless mass searches; "in some cases a trial
isn't automatic; you must request a hearing;" through implied consent,
citizens no longer have claim to certain rights; provision for studying
ways of prosecuting "Federal drug-related offenses in a matter
alternative or supplemental to the current criminal justice system;"
congressional requests for evaluating appropriateness of using biomedical
and behavioral research in the administration of health service (i.e.,
mind control); mandates a system of analysis and monitoring of money
transfer called "World Currency Control;" makes provision for the
Secretary of the Treasury to have the power to obtain "ANY transaction
records from ANY domestic financial institution (even those not part of
the bank/savings & loan system), as well as information on ALL of the
persons involved;" provisions for a special committee to review and
recommend changes on modifying Federal habeas corpus procedure; provides
for the FBI and Attorney General to take jurisdiction when requested, not
by the State, but by an employee head of any State agency for crimes of a
political nature; requires businesses to report all transactions of
$10,000 or more; requires verification and recording of identification of
purchaser of any "money order or other financial instrument of $3000 or
more;" orders a study on whether or not to withdraw cash bills of $50
and $100 from circulation; allocates $23 million "for a machine-readable
identity document program" for identifying known criminals trying to
cross borders, but the type of border is not named and no explanation is
given as to how to implement this without requiring all citizens to
cooperate; orders a study on requiring all "aircraft [and commercial
motor vehicles] to carry operating transponders so that they can be
tracked;" requires government lab facilities "to develop technologies for
Federal law enforcement (not limited to drug enforcement)," which would
include night vision, ground sensor and communications electronics,
physical electronic security, imaging electronic surveillance,
chemical/biosensor research and development, chemical/molecular research,
physical/electronic surveillance and tracking, and explosives ordnance
detection; provides grant money for state and local agencies to tie into
a $120 million data system containing all criminal justice agency
records, including domestic violence, at the federal, state and local
levels; calls for a study on establishing an international criminal
court, which would not have jurisdiction over any U.S. citizen unless the
U.S. lost its sovereignty; authorizes "postal authorities to serve
warrants, subpoenas, make arrests, carry firearms, and make seizures in
matters involving use of mails," yet the post office is a private
corporation and therefore is not part of the federal government; makes
mailing locksmithing equipment a crime ("many common tools can be
classified as locksmithing equipment"); legalizes arming foreign
country's aircraft as long as it is for drug control; mandates use of
military installations as mental treatment centers or prison camps;
proceeds from seized property and $200 million "are to be used for
construction of prisons, rewards for information or help, or for other
things the attorney general need not report;" creating slave labor by
allowing prisons to go "into business to produce products on an economic
basis," which would "only serve to destroy the last remnants of small
business."
Cooper includes in his book a section called Test Case for the
Police State, in which HB1750 "requires all Oklahoma residents to declare
everything they own to the tax collector, everything: guns, coins, art
collections, furniture, business equipment, bank accounts, household
furniture, etc." This will aid the New World Order in redistributing the
wealth. However Oklahoma goes, so goes the rest of the U.S.
Cooper documents that the New World Order plans to use some
reason or excuse to unify all the countries of the world, whether they
have to make up the reason or not. Possible reasons include:
Extraterrestrials attacking Earth, requiring that countries band together
in order to survive; collapse of civilization as a result of
over-population and exhaustion of the Earth's resources; and, extinction
of the human race through pollution of the Earth. The Illuminati
developed a two-pronged approach, lower the birth rate and increase the
death rate.
The Illuminati developed Aids and targeted "undesirable"
populations, blacks, Hispanics and homosexuals. "The African continent
was infected via smallpox vaccine in 1977. The vaccine was administered
by the World Health Organization." It was estimated that all of Africa
will be dead within 15 years without a cure. The gay population in San
Francisco, New York, and four other cities was infected through
experimental hepatitis B vaccine trials in 1979 and 1980. "The ads for
participants specifically asked for promiscuous homosexual male volunteers."
The Haig-Kissinger Depopulation Policy was ordered by the
Bilderbergers. It requires that Third World nations take effective steps
for population control or else the U.S. cuts off aid. "If the Third
World nations refuse, civil war usually breaks out and the rebels are
usually found to be trained, armed and financed by the CIA." Thomas
Ferguson, the Latin American case officer for the State Department's
Office of Population Affairs (OPA) said, "Either they do it our way,
through nice clean methods or they will get the kind of mess that we have
in El Salvador, or in Iran, or in Beirut. Population is a political
problem. Once population is out of control it requires authoritarian
government, even fascism, to reduce it....Civil wars are somewhat
drawn-out ways to reduce population. The quickest way to reduce
population is through famine, like in Africa or through Disease, like the
Black Death, all of which might occur in El Salvador." Mr. Ferguson's
budget just keeps doubling.
Dr. Paul Ehrlich (whose wife is a Club of Rome member) wrote The
Population Bomb. In it he says, "The problem could have been avoided by
population control, in which mankind consciously adjusted the birth rate
so that a 'death rate solution' did not have to occur."
"Tobacco fields in the U.S. have been fertilized with the
radioactive tailings from uranium mines, resulting in a tremendous
increase in the incidence of lip, mouth, throat, and lung cancer. If you
do not believe it, just look at the incidence of lung cancer per capita
before 1950 and compare it to the lung cancer per capita at the present
time."
"Malathion, a nerve gas developed by the Nazis during WWII to
kill people, is being sprayed heavily on population centers in
California. The helicopters come from Evergreen in Arizona, a known
government and a suspected CIA base." When California revolted against
the spraying, the Governor claimed he did not have the power to stop it.
In Colorado dioxin is showing up in their drinking water.
Revolting citizens are met with denial and character assassination.
Eighty years ago more consumption of fat, salt, and cholesterol resulted
in less heart disease. Now we consume less and have more heart disease.
It is a matter of public record that the Army and the CIA have tested
their latest biological warfare toys by releasing them on unsuspecting
U.S. citizens. Investigations into radioactive leaks revealed that some
of those leaks were not accidental, but purposeful. Legionnaire's
desease was released into the wind from a government boat while in San
Francisco Bay. The list goes on.
Cooper includes in his book a chapter called Lessons from
Lithuania written by Neal Knox. This paper documents the threat to
self-government when the right to keep and bear arms is removed. Despite
a constitutional right to keep and bear arms in Lithuania, years ago laws
were passed requiring gun registration. Later Gorbachev ordered all
citizens to turn in their guns temporarily. Two days later Russian
troops seized arms from their militia. Cooper feels it is because most
Americans own at least one firearm that has "kept the New World Order at
bay....As of January 8, 1991, less than 10% of all California gun owners
have registered their firearms. Many Californians stood in the streets
with weapons in hand and publicly burned the registration forms. Network
news did not cover these demonstrations, and no mention has been made on
television that California gun owners have ignored this unconstitutional
gun-registration law" which makes possible later confiscation.
Evidence is presented from no less than four sources that five
days prior to Nixon resigning, top secret messages were sent from an
unknown location to the Joint Chiefs of Staff informing them to no longer
accept any direct orders from the White House. This was a coup. "When
President Nixon gave his farewell speech, he said he would tell the
American people the truth about UFOs. Like James Forrestal, Richard
Nixon found himself a prisoner on the mental ward of Bethesda Naval
Hospital. Unlike Forrestal, Nixon survived. He has remained silent."
Cooper has an entire chapter devoted to top secret information
and history regarding UFOs and the role they play in our secret
government. NSA is the primary agency devoted to UFOs. NSA is also the
only government agency which is immune to all laws, except those which
spell out NSA in the text of the law, including the Freedom of
Information Act. It was decided that the funding for alien-connected and
other black projects would come from cornering the illegal drug market.
George Bush, a member of CFR and CEO of Zapata Oil, organized an
operation with the CIA using oil shipping routes and offshore platforms
to avoid customs and law enforcement. "The CIA now controls most of the
world's illegal drug markets."
Kennedy was assassinated because he discovered part of the truth
regarding the drugs funding the space/alien projects. After he issued an
ultimatum to clean up the drugs and a promise to inform the people of the
alien question, the Bilderbergers and CFR supervised his assassination.
Cooper has a copy of the Zapruder film which plainly shows Kennedy's
Secret Service driver, William Greer, turn, look over his right shoulder
and shoot with his left hand. "All of the witnesses who were close
enough to the car to see William Greer shoot Kennedy were themselves all
murdered within two years of the event....At the present time over 200
material witnesses or people actually involved with the assassination are
dead. The odds against this happening are so high that no one has been
able to calculate them. The odds against the first 18 to die within two
years of the assassination were calculated at one hundred thousand
trillion to one."
Cooper's research and knowledge of top secret documents indicate
that the secret government has some ungodly plans, some long-range plans
that have been in effect for years. Their plan involved creating many
social welfare programs to create a dependent, non-working population,
and then to remove these programs to force this population into a
criminal class. Through drugs and hypnotherapy used on mental patients,
they have "inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on
schoolyards and thus inflame the antigun lobby." There is evidence
connecting many of these types of incidents to the intelligence
community. Once the people are convinced of a crime wave, "they intend
to state that a terrorist group armed with a nuclear weapon has entered
the" U.S. "The government will then suspend the Constitution and declare
martial law....All dissidents, which translates into anyone they choose,
will be rounded up and placed in the one-mile-square concentration camps
which already exist." All media will be seized. All resistors will be
killed or imprisoned. A dress rehearsal of this plan, called REX-84A,
was carried out successfully in 1984.
Evidence is presented that the United Nations Treaty and the
United Nations Participation Act may have already compromised the
sovereignty of the U.S. However, in a stirring letter to the editor,
written by Marilyn Allen to the Texas News Herald, says that "all
renowned and genuine Constitutional experts (such as Thos. M. Cooley,
Thos. Jas. Norton, and Harry Atwood, to name several) have always held
that anything which contravenes, diminishes, or perverts the Constitution
is null and void and of no effect." She goes on to say that no president
can make any such far-reaching treaty "without laying himself open to the
charge of treason under Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution."
Cooper also includes in his book a complete copy of the Proposed
Consitutional Model for the Newstates of America, prepared over a
ten-year period and costing the taxpayers over $25 million.
Cooper includes a copy of the controversial Protocols of the Wise
Men of Sion, a conspiratorial plan to subjugate the world written by the
Illuminati and appearing in the early 1800s. Cooper's research indicates
that it was written intentionally to deceive people as to its
authorship. The Illuminati's deception sets up the Jewish people to take
the fall for it and be further persecuted. Their plan has certainly been
successful, as it is considered anti-Semitic to even refer to this
document, which makes it so no one can even discuss it, quite a coup for
the Illuminati.
This entire document is written to elevate the Illuminati to the
status of a god. The rest of the world is referred to as "cattle" and
with an attitude of disgust and disdain. Some ideas put forth in this
document include: Using the idea of political freedom merely as verbal
bait to draw in the masses; justification of their secret methods as
moral; honesty is a vice in politics; their right lies in force; their
power will be invincible because it will remain secret until such time
that their strength cannot be undermined by anyone; use of temporary evil
since the end justifies the means; they have placed many centuries' of
effort into this plan; good government is where all the power resides in
one person's despotic hands; teaching early immorality to children by
putting them in the hands of their agents; their methods include bribery,
theft, deceit, treachery, and violence; replacing the horrors of war with
less noticeable death sentences in order to produce blind submission;
remain merciless and severe in order to secure submission and sovereignty
of every government in the world; bring wars into the economic realm,
then the Illuminati's international rights will wipe out national rights;
government administrators will be chosen for their servile obedience and
lack of knowledge of governing, while being surrounded by the
Illuminati's learned and bred advisors; perpetrating scientific fraud in
order to educate minds in the direction the Illuminati wants; gaining
power to influence through the press, while remaining themselves in the
shadows; creating terror among rulers through assassination attempts in
order to create a gulf between the rulers and the people; arming all
parties in order for them to be constantly at odds with each other,
setting one against another in all categories, including personal,
national, religious, and racial; giving journalists the right to scribble
nonsense side by side with valid articles; making it so the masses
receive no profit from the constitution besides what the Illuminati
flings them from their table, forcing the masses to vote according to
Illuminati dictate; once the masses have been beaten down, then the
Illuminati will enter as saviors to invite the masses to enter the
Illuminati's fighting ranks of socialists, anarchists, and communists;
killing out the masses, as hunger creates the right of capital to rule
the worker; by want and the envy and hatred which it engenders the
Illuminati shall move the mobs and simultaneously eliminate those in the
way; teach in the national schools division of labor and division of men
into classes; once in power, work positions will be appointed by the
state; arranging for people to blindly believe anything in print; once
all the gold is in the Illuminati's hands, they will set up a universal
economic crisis, during which they will let loose the mobs filled with
hatred to shed blood and loot property, but the Illuminati will not be
touched by the mobs, because the moment of attack will be known to the
Illuminati and they shall take measures to protect themselves; they take
responsibility entirely for the French Revolution; plans to erase the
word freedom from language once they are in power; knowing that no one is
in a position to overthrow an invisible force, using masonry as a screen
for themselves; plans to undermine all faith, tear out the principle of
God and spirit, replacing these with arithmetical calculations and
material needs; through "shocks delivered to economic life," the struggle
for superiority will intensify, creating cold and heartless communities;
corrupting communities so that riches are attained only by clever
surprises of swindling; centralization of government; disarm the people;
debilitate the public mind through criticism, distraction and diversion;
train the masses to accept words for deeds; make politicians empty
orators who will exhaust the patience of the masses; bewilder the masses
with too many contradictory opinions; sow discord; discourage personal
initiative through despair and impotence; establish huge monopolies of
colossal riches, upon which the individual's fortune depends, so that
they will all go to the bottom together along with the credit of the
government on the day after the political smash; create a greedy demand
for luxury to swallow up everything; undermine productivity; create an
illusion of progress by raising wages, but then negate that by raising
prices; increase police force; create inseparate nations by tangling up
all the threads from all governments through politics, economic treaties,
and loan obligations; assume a mask of honesty and compliance, while
simultaneously training the masses to see only superficialities; respond
to opposition through war and respond to collective opposition through
world war; should one of the Illuminati disobey, force them to face
criminal charges or make them disappear; create a Super-Government
Dictatorship; though the masses be begging for peace, the Illuminati will
refuse to give them peace until the masses acknowledge the Illuminati's
"international Super-Government;" fool, bemuse and corrupt the masses'
youth by rearing them in principles and theories which are known by the
Illuminati to be false on the one hand, but inculcated by them on the
other; create a tangled web of legislation; make discussion of religion
and politics taboo; create an over-inflated sense of importance within
each individual in order to destroy the family unit; don't allow any
detailed discussion of their overall plan among themselves; arrange
elections of presidents who have in their past some dark, undiscovered
stain that will make them obedient pawns out of fear of discovery;
abolition of every kind of constitution through destructive small,
successive steps; create irregularities and incompetence in rulers so
the people will beg for one king over all the earth; exhaust humanity
with dissension, hatred, struggle, envy, torture, starvation, inoculation
of diseases, and want; the masses are a flock of sheep and the Illuminati
are their wolves; once all the masses rights have been removed, the
Illuminati will keep promising to restore those rights just as soon as
peace has been restored; the "basis for our organization of secret
Masonry which is not known to, and aims which are not even so much as
suspected by, these cattle, attracted by us into the 'show' army of
masonic lodges in order to throw dust in the eyes of their fellows;" use
the press to inflame passions toward the Illuminati's ends; once in
power, eliminate the free press such that "not a single announcement will
reach the public without [the Illuminati's] control;" control the few
agencies which receive all the news items from all over the world [wire
services]; create government controlled permission to publish; control
the press by having Illuminati agents in the central department of the
press who will without attracting attention issue the orders and
watchwords of the day, discussing and controverting, but without ever
touching the essence of the matter; allow the press to carry out already
agreed upon attacks upon the government to keep the people believing in
freedom of speech; bind journalists with professional secrecy; admit only
journalists with a hidden disgraceful sore in their past; once in power,
criminal cases will not be allowed in the press in order to keep the
people believing that there is peace; to keep the people from guessing
the truth, distract them with amusements, games, pastimes, passions,
people's palaces, art competitions, and sports competitions such that the
people grow accustomed to never forming any opinions of their own;
destroy all other religions but the Illuminati's; keep the Illuminati's
true religion a secret and never discuss it openly; once in power, all
secret societies will be banned and punished with death; once in power,
government resolutions will be final and without appeal; almost all
agents of international and national police will be agents of the
Illuminati; death for anyone who hinders them, including masons, in a
manner that looks like a normal illness so that no one suspects murder;
the Illuminati keep their own people and agents in a state of
unquestioning submission, including judges and senators; because of the
Illuminati's belief in their own "higher quality of humanness," they
believe nature has destined them to rule the world; once in power, remake
the laws into very simple laws understood by all and criminality will be
punished mercilessly; once in power, the Illuminati's legal staff will
not serve over the age of 55, so that a continuously changing staff will
bend more easily under their hand; once in power, the Illuminati will
abolish the idea that a judge's decision could be wrong; "our supreme
will will be respected and unquestionably fulfilled" by punishing
discontents; once in power, the Illuminati's government will appear to be
a patriarchal guardianship so that the masses will feel a devotion
bordering on apotheosis or deification; emasculate universities through
re-educating them in a new direction by keeping the professors wholly
dependent upon the government, by eliminating freedom of instruction and
by eliminating courses in law, politics, classicism, ancient history, and
every other disturbing subject; once in power, replace the study of
history with the study of the future; once in power, rewrite history to
emphasize mistakes of prior governments; swallow up independent thought
by teaching through object lessons, thereby training the brutish masses
to wait for things to be presented before their eyes in order to form an
idea of them; once in power, judges and attorneys will be deprived of the
right to communicate with litigants, except through court reports;
attorneys will be paid regardless of the quality of their defense;
encourage freedom of conscience to aid "the complete wrecking of that
Christian religion;" discredit the priesthood; create spies and informers
even within families to keep the rest of the cattle under observation;
once in power, anyone who refuses to inform will be charged with
concealment; all the abuses of power, deceit, bribery, murder, force,
which they have introduced into the cattle's government, the Illuminati
will disallow in their own once they are in power; destroy the prestige
of rulers by making frequent attempts on their lives; once in power,
their ruler will appear in public surrounded by a mob of apparently
curious men and women who will occupy the front ranks about him, to all
appearance by chance, in order to create the illusion of total
confidence; once in power, criminals will be arrested merely on the first
well-grounded suspicion; destroy the heroism of political crimes by
treating them the same as murder; maintain a standardized property tax to
excite trouble and discontent among the masses, but once in power, create
a progressive property tax in order to not plant seeds of revolution
among the masses; once in power purchase, receipt of money or
inheritance, and any transfer of property will be subject to a stamp
progressive tax and weekly document collection; once in power the
presence of rulers at receptions for the sake of etiquette, which absorbs
so much invaluable time, will be abolished, since they were originally
created by the Illuminati merely to waste time and create a screen for
the Illuminati's rule; withdrawing money and gold from circulation and
from States in order to force the use of loans; reckon children as
consumers of currency from the day of their birth; once in power, budgets
of income and expense will be carried out side by side in order to not
obscure them by distance from each other; in order to bankrupt the
States, create irregularities, such as drag out a budget to half the year
so the masses will demand a supplementary budget to put things right,
then the following year the masses will draw up a budget equaling the
total sum of the previous year, so that annually the budget grows as much
as 50 percent; create loans external to the country so that the masses
money will end up in the Illuminati's coffers, so that eventually the
debts will be in amounts quite impossible to pay; once in power, the
government will be transformed into a lender of money at profit; the
bankruptcies created by the Illuminati are for the purpose of proving to
the masses that the state does not have the masses interests at heart;
creating grandiose government credit institutions to fling upon the
market five hundred millions of industrial paper in one day or to buy up
for the same amount, in order to make industrial undertakings dependent
upon the Illuminati; "In our hand is the greatest power of our day -
gold....surely we shall not fail with such wealth to prove that all that
evil which for so many centuries we have had to commit has served at the
end of ends the cause of true well-being - the bringing of everything
into order;" the Illuminati's authority will create reverent fear in all
the peoples, since "true force makes no terms with any right, not even
with that of God;" once in power, reduce the production of luxury items
in order to inculcate lessons of humility in the masses; create
unemployment, but once in power, eliminate it; once in power, punish
drunkenness as a crime; allow anarchical and demoralized societies
(gangs) to spring up among the masses to commit robbery and violence, but
once the Illuminati is in power, resurrect them in the form of regularly
organized fighting troops; and, allow only agents of the Illuminati who
know "the secrets" to become heads of government.
[...to be continued...]
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FLYING HIGH WITH COMMANDER BILLY JEFF
"A Scenario"
[...continued...]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff gave the nod to the old boozer down at the end of the
bar, then left the tavern.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The "old boozer" pulled a pistol with silencer from his coat,
strode swiftly up to the bartender and shot him dead, right
between the eyes.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He removed the silencer, then placed the pistol in the now dead
bartender's right hand. Another "suicide".
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Back in the limousine, Commander Billy Jeff was on the phone with
Dee Dee, his press liaison. "What's on the schedule?" he asked.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"We've arranged it that the media is going to discover you at a
bookstore. You are going to be surprised by them as you exit with
an armful of books."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Say," mused The Commander, "will I get to make a speech?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"*No*!! Please, not that... er, I mean uh, no. Given that you
have been discovered by surprise, a speech wouldn't look right."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Oh, darn... Hey, you think maybe I can give a speech later on?
How about to some poor rubes in some hick town... Hey! Like
Galesburg, Illinois! Aren't I scheduled for there?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Sure," answered Dee Dee. "Those small-town bozos will be so
amazed at your visit that we can get them to act enthusiastic. No
problem."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The limousine pulled up at a local bookseller's. The camera crews
were already setting up when Billy Jeff entered the store. Rita
Braver watched in worshipful silence.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fifteen minutes later, Commander Billy Jeff exited the store with
an armful of books. Rita Braver reported, live: "Gosh, Dan. What
a surprise! Quite by chance we have this live video of Commander
Billy Jeff finishing up some shopping here at a local book store.
Gosh! I'm all ga-ga! I feel just like a teenage girl!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff paused before entering the limo. He looked off into
the distance, as if he was seeing some vast future. Rita Braver
almost swooned. Dan Blather cut in to ask, "Rita, is it true that
Billy Jeff is a Yale man?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rita, always the "professional", pulled out of her swoon. "That's
correct, Dan. He (like myself, I blush to add) attended elite
universities. We are, if I do say so myself, the creme de la
creme. (That's French, you know.)"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The limousine, with Commander Billy Jeff inside, drove off into
the sunset. Rita Braver wrapped it all up: "And there you have
it. I'm going to buy a bunch of teenage magazines and have a
pajama party. Back to you, Dan."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Back at the White House, Billy Jeff sat in the oval office,
drumming his fingers on the table. This moment of reverie did not
last long. "Say, I sure am hungry," he said.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He picked up the phone and called down to the White House
kitchen.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chef Pierre answered the phone. "Oui?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Say, Pierre, how's about rustlin' me up some grub?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Ah, oui... Monsieur is hungry."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Oui, oui, Pierre. I sure could go for some of that fine French
cooking. Like, you know, maybe some French hamburgers and some
French fries."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Ah, but of course! Commander Beeley Jeff, I weel get right on
eet."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chef Pierre hung up the phone, but did not rise from his chair.
"Eh, Louie!" he called.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Louie, the assistant chef, looked up. "Oui?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Meester Potato Head ees hungry. Go to zee McDonalds for zee fine
French cooking."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commander Billy Jeff finished the last of the hamburgers that
Louie had brought. He wiped his mouth. "No one can cook a
hamburger like the French!" he belched. "I just love that fine
French cooking!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The phone rang. It was Billy Jeff's old buddy from Arkansas, Dan
Lizard! "Hey, Billy Jeff!" said Dan. "Get on the Air Force One
and get down here! We're havin' a wild cocaine party! There's
tons of high school chicks!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Hot dog!" replied the Commander. "Cocaine party! High school
chicks! I'm on my way!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Commander Billy Jeff called down to the Secret Service. "Hey,
Secret Service! Fire up Air Force One and get me a 'copter on the
front lawn! I'm on a diplomatic investigative mission to
Arkansas!"
[...to be continued...]
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FEMINISM: MASK FOR MARXISM?
Tom Valentine's guest on *Radio Free America* (Shortwave, 5.065
MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on December 28, 1994 was Andrea Pearson,
editor-in-chief of a newsletter called "Americans In Exile"
[contact info to be included below]. Ms. Pearson has some non-
politically correct views on feminism, etc. Note that views
expressed in the following do not necessarily reflect my own
views or those of Conspiracy Nation.
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TOM VALENTINE:
I can tell ya, being a student in high school in '49, '50, '51,
'52, that that wasn't true.
ANDREA PEARSON:
Oh it certainly isn't true...
VALENTINE:
Our class valedictorian was a girl! [i.e., young wommon; cf.
*Politically Correct Bedtime Stories* by James Finn Garner.]
PEARSON:
Oh yes, absolutely. There *is* no gender inequity in education.
And yet, in the Gender Equity in Education Act what we end up
with is a massive system -- not only re-writing of history,
textbooks intended to create certain opinions in children
regarding gender roles, but really disgusting things like parent
education about gender roles and their influence on learning.
VALENTINE:
All right. I want to take this up in more detail when we come
back.
My guest is Andrea Pearson. And we're talking about the gender
war, and Marxism. I'm Tom Valentine. This is *Radio Free
America*.
[...break...]
We are *live*, again. And on the other end of the telephone is
Andrea Pearson. And we're gonna be continuing to talk about the
Gender Equity in Education Act. I profess a great deal of
ignorance here on this subject.
Andrea, I believe you put out a little newsletter or something on
this, don't you?
PEARSON:
Yeah, I sure do.
VALENTINE:
Tell me about that, too.
PEARSON:
Well, anyone who's interested in obtaining the newsletter can
either write to me or call me. The address is: Americans in
Exile, P.O. Box 2636, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 01202. And my
phone number is (413) 499-3593.
VALENTINE:
Oh, I have that number! I thought maybe you had a different
number for that. O.K. It's "Americans in Exile". Ah-hah! Are
*you* an "American in exile"?
PEARSON:
I think that most people who have the traditional belief systems
about what marriage is, what the parents' role is towards their
children, and so forth and so on, *are* "exiled" in America
today.
VALENTINE:
O.K. Andrea, will you send out a sample if people write to you
and say that they'd like to see it?
PEARSON:
Yeah, I sure will!
VALENTINE:
O.K. Good. We got that done.
Now, this Gender Equity in Education Act. (I *should* know all
about it.) I don't know a thing about it. When'd they pass this?
PEARSON:
It was passed in 1993.
VALENTINE:
Oh, last year!
PEARSON:
Yeah. And what it does is, it allows, first of all, for the
connection of major government systems: Health and Human
Services, uh there's... They call it "The Link-up for Learning".
And what it does is, it puts together a *huge* federal-level
method for tabulating where students are: their socio-economic
status, their race, their sex, and so forth...
VALENTINE:
Oh, is this the thing that Beverly Eckman has helped uncover in
her book about education?
PEARSON:
It's very likely that it may be related to that. I don't know if
she's aware of this or not. But one thing that it says here (I'm
reading), it says, "improve inter-agency communications and
information sharing, including developing local-area
telecommunication networks, software development, database
integration and management." And this is with major areas of the
federal government. There's a federal inter-agency task force
that's been set up "consisting of the Secretary of Education,
Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and
heads of other federal agencies, as appropriate." This is a huge
bill. It's $360 million in the first year.
VALENTINE:
All right, now, this is strange. Most Americans, including
myself, would think that's awfully innocuous -- telling the
bureaucrats of our government to get together and computerize.
But what you're saying is, by having government bureaucrats get
together and computerize, they are micro-managing lives in a way
that is detrimental to our traditional society.
PEARSON:
Well it *is* invasive to the family. But it's also particularly
disturbing that the kind of things that they're paying attention
to are the gender role socialization within a particular
student's family. And also, you know this bill provides for so
much, it's difficult to talk about *all* of it. But...
VALENTINE:
Well, wait a minute: gender role socialization inside a
particular family??
PEARSON:
That's right.
VALENTINE:
How do they go about doing this? What do they do?
PEARSON:
Well, one thing is to change the textbooks so they're considered
to be "gender equitable". Another thing that they do is, they put
monies into different parts of the country: "At least one grant,"
(and I'm quoting here), "in each of the ten federal regions."
That's *their* words.
Also, in the U.N. [United Nations] treaty, they talk about this
same sort of thing being put into the education system. We're
getting into conformity with U.N. law here.
VALENTINE:
All right, does that mean... I'm trying to get this in a
practical, down-to-earth, 1950s mentality -- which I'm stuck with
when it comes to education and school. That means that boys don't
go to wood shop anymore, and girls don't go to "home ec." [i.e.,
home economics]
PEARSON:
Uh...
VALENTINE:
They all go to sex education.
PEARSON:
Well... It's not that simple. There's "set-asides" for pregnant
teenagers. It allows for the erection of day-care centers --
either next to the school or nearby the school, with
transportation provided. It provides for all kinds of special
privileges for girls...
VALENTINE:
I got ya. All right.
Andrea is my guest, Andrea Pearson and the American in Exile. And
we're gonna open up the phone lines to you.
I'm Tom Valentine. This is *Radio Free America*.
[...break...]
All right. We are back, live. My guest is Andrea. Andrea Pearson,
the producer of "Americans in Exile" newsletter, out of Post
Office Box 2636, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 01202.
And Andrea, this Gender Equity in Education Act sounds like a
massive thing, sort of like the crime bill. And it slipped
through in 1993. There wasn't a lot of fanfare, was there?
PEARSON:
There wasn't a lot of fanfare. I'd be surprised if most Americans
knew about it. I think that they'd be *horrified* if they knew
what was in it.
VALENTINE:
Well I'm... I don't even fully understand yet. We've been talking
about it, but um... It's a big bill, and you say it's horrifying.
Yet I don't sense the urgency. Somehow, we're not getting it
across, of how bad it is.
PEARSON:
Well, one thing that seems to me like a real whopper is, that an
"at risk" student is defined here. And this is the definition.
(I'd like to read it, 'cause I think it's so serious): "Many 'at
risk' students suffer the effects of inadequate nutrition and
health care, overcrowded and unsafe living conditions and
homelessness, family and gang violence, substance abuse, sexual
abuse and child abuse, involuntary migration, and limited English
proficiency, that often creates severe barriers to learning" the
knowledge and skills, and so forth.
Then it later... This is one thing that they're going to give
grants to support, is grants to local education agencies to
improve educational performances of "at risk" students by
removing barriers to their learning.
The trouble is, is with Bill of Rights, is that what *happens*
is, the government starts stepping in and saying that poverty,
and someone who's unemployed, may in fact be... uh, that
constitutes "dysfunction" within a family. And you know as well
as I do that this monstrous "child protective services" industry
that's been set up, [it] gobbles up people.
VALENTINE:
They abuse it. I mean, we have had... We've had people (and
you've probably heard 'em on this show) that are *very* concerned
about the social welfare abuse system, where a child can actually
point a finger at the parents and yell, "Mommy and daddy are
treating me bad!" -- and the State's gonna come in and throw
mommy and daddy in the slammer and put the kid in a foster home!
PEARSON:
Oh sure. And what it does is, it integrates services,
regulations, databases, eligibility procedures, and funding
sources, "focusing school and community resources on prevention
and early intervention strategies, to address student needs
holistically."
Now the trouble is, is that what's happening in this country is
we are having Marxism imposed with the force of law on the
people. And Marxists believe that children should be in the care
of the State. Now the forceable removal of children is one thing.
But the coercion of the child away from the American culture and
values, their Christian, or Judeo-Christian values, is something
that I think would disturb a lot of people. And the roles of
husband and wife are something that our government has an
unhealthy interest in.
VALENTINE:
Well frankly, the federal government especially has *no* business
in *any* of these things, that you're talkin' about. The schools
should be run by the local school districts, or the people who
are sending their kids to that school oughtta run that district.
If you'd like to join us (my guest is Andrea Pearson), and if
you'd like to join us, it's 1-800-878-8255.
Did you know that this Feminism, that she's talking about, had
this Marxist agenda? And it's been insidious! You know, they...
What was it that somebody said? "You don't lose your freedom in
one big fell swoop. You lose it little by little." I think that's
what's happening here, Andrea.
[...to be continued...]
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FEMINISM: MASK FOR MARXISM?
Tom Valentine's guest on *Radio Free America* (Shortwave, 5.065
MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on December 28, 1994 was Andrea Pearson,
editor-in-chief of a newsletter called "Americans In Exile"
[contact info to be included below]. Ms. Pearson has some non-
politically correct views on feminism, etc. Note that views
expressed in the following do not necessarily reflect my own
views or those of Conspiracy Nation.
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[...continued...]
ANDREA PEARSON:
Absolutely, I think it is. Also, when Congress considered passing
this U.N. treaty, they talk about how "patterns of conduct" is in
article five of the treaty.
TOM VALENTINE:
All right. Now this U.N. Convention, this treaty, is this the one
that goes clear back to 1957, in establishing the U.N.?
PEARSON:
Uh...
VALENTINE:
Or is this something new?
PEARSON:
Well, actually, it was signed on behalf of the united States in
1980. It has not been ratified yet. But one provision in the
document is to say that the different States' parties can bring
their own federal laws into compliance.
Now what this treaty does, in lots of ways, is it regulates
conduct, it alters culture... It talks about how the State should
provide for health care, and women should have equal opportunity
for all sorts of things -- that I don't think the American people
*want* women to have equal opportunity, say, for military
service. Or we don't necessarily feel that our "patterns of
conduct" or our culture are something that we want changed.
What disturbs me the most about this is that there was no public
debate about this [e.g. The Gender Equity in Education Act]. And
I believe that anyone who's a historian or who has studied
American history *knows* that people like Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, and so forth, were not "white male dictators"
in general, and certainly did not abuse their wives. And yet
Marxists believe that they did.
Just this one piece of evidence of that: if you look at the
*Notes on the State of Virginia* by Thomas Jefferson... And he's
writing, in this case, about the American Indians. But he's
talking about how *they* relate, in terms of men and women. And
he says, "It is civilization alone which places women in the
enjoyment of their natural equality."
And I believe that, in America, women were free creatures who
were very happy the way they were. And not only that, they worked
when they wanted to. There was, in fact, no discrimination
against women.
VALENTINE:
Well if they wanted to [work], they certainly could.
All right. If you'd like to join us, 1-800-878-8255. Andrea
Pearson is my guest. "Feminizing and Marxizing Us". I'm Tom
Valentine, *Radio Free America*.
[...break...]
All right, we are back, live. And a very important part of
everyday life is being discussed tonight: the role of women in
this here united States of America.
Mark, [in] Sarasota. You're on, with Andrea.
Hello, Mark.
MARK:
Yeah. Good evening, Andrea. It's just wonderful and refreshing to
hear a woman come on the air with your viewpoints. Actually,
today, in the media, that's all you get is the left-wing
viewpoint of women -- feminized, feministic views of women today.
I have one point that I want to just clarify with you. You
mentioned that it's our Judeo-Christian heritage. Actually, it's
really our Christian heritage. And that's an important part and
it should be emphasized too. That when we go back and we're
talkin' about people like Thomas Jefferson and some of our
founding fathers and George Washington, remember that this was a
Christian heritage. It wasn't a Judeo-Christian heritage. Many of
the Marxist, Communist ideas have been introduced in the Judeo-
Christian churches today which are not really our founding,
Christian heritage at all.
PEARSON:
I understand what you're saying, about our Christian heritage,
and I agree with you. But I also believe that there are a number
of very honorable and good Jewish people who honor the same
principles that I talk about, that you are espousing too. And I
don't like to exclude people -- and particularly if you read in
the work of St. Paul, in Romans, [chapter] eleven. He talks about
how even though some of these Jewish people may have been
deceived, that that was for our blessing. And I really don't like
to divide things according to religious lines when I'm talking
about America.
And I think that the Biblical history as well is something that
shows very *clearly* what the role of women should be. And it's
often referred to in the New Testament. Also, those kinds of
things are found in the Old Testament, such as the ruling of
Appolya(?), or Jezebel, in Judah. I don't think that (even though
I sense in many of the Jewish people that they espouse this kind
of agenda), I think that many people who are Christians, or who
call themselves Christians, often have incorporated the Feminist
agenda into their very churches. I hear [of] female ministers and
female priests, and I don't believe that that's something that's
according to God's law! I think that...
VALENTINE:
That's a big fight going on right now, especially in the Lutheran
and the Episcopalian church.
PEARSON:
Absolutely! And I've watched that. And I'm particularly disturbed
at the way that Christianity is being re-written. And I think we,
as Christians, need to mind our own business pretty carefully.
Because things are gettin' serious out there.
VALENTINE:
All right. Mark, I understand where you're coming from also: that
there are many people who feel that the traditional, Christian
values have been distorted. And one of the things to do is to use
language in such a way, and that the Ecumenical movement, which
has watered down basic Christianity, utilized that phrase,
"Judeo-Christian"...
MARK:
That's right.
VALENTINE:
...and people see it for that and... And so you both make a good
point, and I appreciate your call very much!
MARK:
Thank you.
VALENTINE:
Gene, in Savannah, Georgia.
GENE:
How are ya doin', Tom?
VALENTINE:
Just fine.
GENE:
Uh, Andrea. Pleased ta meet ya. You've got a very good, and
serious, subject. I think it strikes at the *heart* of the matter
of what's happening in America. If we can strike at this, first,
the right to bear arms is second to this. We need to back it up.
But as a man, and someone who tries to exercise their rights over
children, it becomes very difficult. And how to attack it: I've
done a little research, reaching, uh studying Kent's commentaries
and Blackstone's commentaries. I've discovered that even the
common law doesn't really help that much. It seems like the
common law has been divided into, well, I think it's been
traversed. I call it, "the king's common law". And I think the
last caller has a pretty good point. I studied Judaism a little
bit, and it looks like, in the Jewish religion, that the mother
is held up as the head of the family. And under the king's common
law, the kind of like, you know, in the old days, about
legitimizing a child and all that -- and it has a lot to do with
today's "birth certificate". If you don't have a birth
certificate, you lose... you know, you almost... You try to
retain your rights to your child, but without the birth
certificate you're in a paradox and you lose your rights to the
child.
And if you look into the law libraries, you can read about using
the petition of *habeas corpus* to bring the child forth. And I
think this is evidence that the Biblical common law was where the
father was head of the family and, you know, as long as he obeyed
God's law. And well, whoever, you know, really disobeyed the law
of God was actually the one who should be, you know, punished or
what have you. But the child should stay with the father as long
as, you know, he obeyed...
VALENTINE:
Well the point that seems to be coming out of both of you is
that, the traditions that are the glue of our society have been
set down in Scripture for a long, long time -- both in the Old
and the New Testaments. And if we stopped getting away from that,
we wouldn't be doing so badly.
GENE:
Yeah. I'm wondering if, when this type of "king's common law", as
I call it, has been switched from Biblical common law over... I
was wondering if it was when Oliver Cromwell allowed the Jewish
people into England. I'm just theorizing.
VALENTINE:
That's a, that's a subject for another show some night. And there
are a lot of people that go into that particular aspect of the
control over the British-speaking [sic] people and the use of the
Bible and so on.
Gene, I appreciate your call.
Dan, in Schenectady, New York!
DAN:
Yes sir! Well I wanna say two things: one is, it's a privilege to
be listening to you, Andrea, and hearing your commentary tonight.
And Tom, we've been listening to you for a couple of years, and
in the last year or so on shortwave. And it's good to hear you in
this area.
First, I wanna say, number one, is the comments with regard to
the laws passed and everything: I think the issue that many of us
are concerned about is, a lot of times (in the dark of night, so
to speak) laws are passed that nobody knows much about. And it
really brings us to the question of localism. In not just, you
know, laws, but in virtually controlling the community around us.
A lot of the things that are mentioned in the law that Andrea
raised, or I should say, that was passed, are probably more
proper items for a local community. Because a lot of times it
depends on that local community -- its mores, their social
conditions, and what's involved. And a lot of times, we lose
track of the fact that, you know, the whole, the whole issue of
our Constitution, etc., invests a lot of power *downward*. From
the federal level, down to the local communities.
VALENTINE:
Well Dan, that's what I've thought: that this doesn't belong in
the federal government at all. And I'm out of time right now, and
I really appreciate your calling. And I'll have Andrea comment on
what you had to say, as soon as we get back.
I'm Tom Valentine. This is *Radio Free America*.
[...break...]
[...to be continued...]
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"American movement" -- of arms and ideology
[From *USA Today*, Jan. 30, 1995, p. 7A]
(Spurred on by the fiery disaster in Waco, America's militia
movement is growing, armed and -- some say -- dangerous.)
Militias stepping out from shadows
==================================
By Mark Potok
(Dallas) -- Men train in the pre-dawn darkness of a field north
of here, dummy weapons in hand.
Others study military medicine west of Fort Worth or practice
shooting skills and survival exercises outside San Antonio.
A movement is growing in this state and the nation -- a rising of
thousands of people inflamed by often-bizarre ideologies that
call for forming armed volunteer militias to save the United
States from fascism.
"The militia movement," says Texas organizer Jon Roland, "is a
good-government movement with guns."
And that's the theme that increasingly is alarming state and
federal law enforcement officials, who, after years of dismissing
them, are beginning to take militias seriously.
In the past six months, militias -- many called to arms by the
government's deadly standoff two years ago with Branch Davidians
near Waco -- have appeared in at least 24 states, drawing up to
50,000 members.
-+- Grim warnings of a showdown -+-
Claiming that criminal elements have taken over much of the
federal government, most militia leaders have avoided calls for
an armed uprising but darkly warn they may one day have to shoot.
"There is one last hope to avoid armed confrontation, and that's
if our state governments rise up and tell our federal government
to back off," says Ray Southwell, chief of staff for the
commander of the Northern Michigan Regional Militia. "If the
state does not rise up... the American people will."
Talk like that -- along with the boasts of many militia leaders
of secret units of police and military -- deeply concerns
observers.
Although federal officials will not publicly discuss any
investigations, a 10-page intelligence brief by federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms recently was circulated to several
police departments. It warned that militiamen are "extremely
paramilitary, anti-ATF and literal interpreters of the
Constitution" who may be breaking gun laws. {1}.
That would not come as a surprise to Michigan officials.
"We've got such an insurgency here," says Fowlerville, Mich.,
Police Chief Gary Krause after the arrest of three camouflaged
militia members in a car full of semiautomatic weapons, gas
masks, night-vision devices and 700 rounds of ammunition, some of
it armor-piercing. "There's a very high potential of something
disastrous happening."
-+- A wake-up call in Waco -+-
The idea of militias, drawn from earlier groups like Posse
Comitatus and Aryan Nations {2}, took root again in 1992 when an
FBI sniper killed the wife of an Idaho separatist.
But it was Waco that really got the movement going. Many militia
members saw the 52-day standoff and fiery disaster that ended it
as proof that the federal government would stop at nothing to
crush resistance.
"We see Waco as a centralization of power; the federal government
coming into all areas of our lives," says Norm Olson, commander
of the Northern Michigan Regional Militia. "The militia movement
in America is the biggest thing since the Revolution."
"Waco was the second shot heard 'round the world," {3} says
Russell Smith, Dallas commander of the Texas Constitutional
Militia, now organized in almost 20 counties. "It woke us up to a
very corrupt beast."
-+- An "internationalist" conspiracy -+-
The ideologies driving the militias are complicated, often
incredible, sometimes racist and almost always paranoid. {4}.
Among a host of conspiracy theories is this scenario:
* The federal government has been hijacked by sinister forces --
a dozen or more banking families -- that have orchestrated the
seizure of states' rights and the buildup of an
"internationalist" U.S. government.
* The plan, militiamen say, is to manufacture an economic
collapse to invite in United Nations troops on a "humanitarian"
mission.
* Then, guided by secret markings on the back of road signs, the
U.N. troops will disarm regular Americans.
* The outcome: A weak and disarmed America becomes part of the
bankers' "one-world government," organized to make serfs of the
world's peoples and enrich bankers.
"Fantasies," says Faith Elliot of the Council on Foreign
Relations, whose members are supposed to be part of the plot.
And Mark Briskman, Dallas director for the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith, dismisses that kind of talk as so much recycled
anti-Semitic vitriol.
So it has been, in the past, difficult for many people to take
this sort of thing too seriously. But given the almost fanatical
devotion of some militia members -- and because they are well-
armed -- disbelief is now tempered by concern.
"People are genuinely arming themselves and getting ready for
combat," warns Fred Clarkson of Planned Parenthood of America's
Public Policy Institute. "So it's inevitable some combat will
actually take place." {5}.
-+- This is an American movement -+-
Critics say that in addition to arms, many militias are well-
stocked with leaders known to be white supremacists.
Mike Reynolds, editorial director for the Southern Poverty Law
Center's *Klanwatch* publication, says he and many in law
enforcement believe a national militia strategy was laid out at
an October 1992 meeting in Estes Park, Colo.
About 150 members of the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Posse
Comitatus and Christian Identity met to discuss militias.
Such accusations infuriate many militiamen and their leaders, who
deny any racism and insist their movement will remain legal.
"The majority are absolutely opposed to any racial hate groups,"
says Ann Utterback, Comal County commander for the Texas
Constitutional Militia, which recently held a "muster" of 500
people at the Alamo. "We totally reject Nazis, KKK, Aryan
Nations. This is an American movement."
National militia leader Linda Thompson, founder of the
Unorganized Militia of the United States, denies being racist,
anti-Semitic or "right wing." If there are such elements in the
movement, she says, they are "government plants" wrecking the
work she started.
Then she accuses many of her fellow militia leaders, along with
the reporter interviewing her, of being agents for the ADL [Anti-
Defamation League] -- which battles anti-Semitism.
Chip Berlet, analyst with Political Research Associates of
Cambridge, Mass., which monitors far-right movements, says it is
"intellectually dishonest" to label the entire movement racist.
Rather, he says, the underlying themes are anti-government, anti-
gun control and conspiratorial.
"There are more people in the movement uncomfortable with anti-
Semitism and white supremacy," he says. "But that may change."
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
[CN -- This is one of several related articles. See *USA Today*
for the other articles.]
[CN -- I have been informed that Bo Gritz will be featured on the
ABC show "Day One" this Thursday, Feb. 2, 1995.]
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{1} "...literal interpreters of the Constitution..." Is there
some other way to interpret the Constitution?
{2} "The idea of militias, drawn from earlier groups like Posse
Comitatus and Aryan Nations..." Drawn from the U.S. Constitution,
the supreme law of the land.
{3} "Waco was the second shot heard 'round the world..." The
original "shot heard round the world" occurred at (I believe)
Lexington, New Hampshire in 1775 and marked the beginning of the
American Revolutionary War (a.k.a. the American War for
Independence).
{4} "...sometimes racist and almost always paranoid." Everything
I have heard indicates that all races, creeds, and religions are
welcome to join the various militias. Is there any of the
militias that excludes members based on race, creed or religion?
I haven't heard of any. As to "...almost always paranoid..." --
"Paranoid", a.k.a. "crazy" a.k.a. "non-approved thought".
{5} "...so it's inevitable some combat will actually take place."
I find that statement ominous. Whether or not combat takes place
depends on the feds. The militias are in a purely defensive
posture.
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FEMINISM: MASK FOR MARXISM?
Tom Valentine's guest on *Radio Free America* (Shortwave, 5.065
MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on December 28, 1994 was Andrea Pearson,
editor-in-chief of a newsletter called "Americans In Exile"
[contact info to be included below]. Ms. Pearson has some non-
politically correct views on feminism, etc. Note that views
expressed in the following do not necessarily reflect my own
views or those of Conspiracy Nation.
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[...continued...]
TOM VALENTINE [continues]:
All right, we are back, live. My guest is Andrea Pearson. And she
has been pointing out (and I think very nicely) that we have had
a creeping Marxism in the feminizing-type laws -- especially one
that was passed in 1993, the Gender Equity in Education Act.
Hardly any of us knew anything about it; I don't know of anybody
here that was really up on that one. And I don't remember the
media "beating it to death" [i.e., covering it a lot].
And the other one is that we are under a United Nations
Convention that's not yet been ratified, but it started in 1980.
And if we *do* ratify it, it's gonna be worse than the World
Trade Organization!
Andrea.
ANDREA PEARSON:
I think it will be far worse, because the people who are trying
to destroy us have in mind a way for us to live.
And particularly, for a minute, I would like to bring out that I
don't think that the answer at this point is to think about
changing the local systems to separate from the federal
government. But rather, I think what's important is for the men
of this country to realize that, as men, they have a God-given
role within the family to be a provider and a protector. And that
*many* men in this country have been deprived of their ability to
do that, because of government policy. And thus, this kind of
invasion of the family becomes possible.
VALENTINE:
You know, my wife would agree. She says it's the men who have
failed to be the head of the houses that have let this country
down.
You've had three men callers, and now we have a lady out there. I
wonder if she agrees or not.
Doris, [in] Deep Creek, Florida.
DORIS:
Yes. Andrea. I wanted to tell you, on what you have said, what it
ties in with. It ties in with the United Nations curriculum for
the public school children, *Goals 2000*. All that is spelled
out. It's to make the child and mother feel that the State will
take care of 'em; they don't need the man around. If they have
anything they need, it will be provided for. That is in your
*Goals 2000*, which is going to *ruin* education.
PEARSON:
I agree with you, 100 percent. The "sugar daddies" in Congress
sure are luring the women away, aren't they?
DORIS:
Yes, and it's *planned* that way.
PEARSON:
Oh it certainly is. This is done by design.
DORIS:
Yes. I was on the committee for a full year, before it was
implemented in our town. And on the final meeting, they had
someone from the state come down, and they asked if they had any
questions. And I raised my hand. I said, "*Will* *you* *admit*
this is a United Nations curriculum?!" She would *not* answer,
even if I asked it four times. So I went ahead and I *told* the
committee that they can think I'm a "kook", but pay attention. In
the future, it's gonna come around that this is a United Nations
curriculum. And it's the worst thing they can put in for their
child.
And now, they're starting to hear it on different stations;
they're starting to read it in the newspaper. And this is all
being done undercover, with a lot of parents not even being
aware.
Also, the children are on computer data bases! Everything they
ask the child, under psychology tests, everything that is
programmed with the child -- Outcome Based Education. And there's
privacy: parents cannot see it.
VALENTINE:
All right. Listen, Doris, you're terrific. From Deep Creek,
Florida, with that New York/Massachusetts accent! I love it.
Andrea, we're gonna have to bring you back. Because one hour is
not enough time for this. But I wanna plan it again, if you don't
mind. And we'll talk about this subject again. Is that all right
with you?
PEARSON:
Well that's wonderful, Tom. And you have wonderful, intelligent
callers.
VALENTINE:
I sure do -- the best! Sometimes I even turn them into guests.
Thank you very much for giving up your time tonight. We *will* be
doing it again.
Andrea's newsletter is, "Americans in Exile". And it's Post
Office Box 2636. (This is where you write to. She'll send you a
sample of her newsletter dealing with this feminizing Marxism
behind the scenes, and so forth.) Americans in Exile, Post Office
Box 2636, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 01202. Her telephone is
(413) 499-3593. There ya go.
Andrea, thank you very much.
All right! We're gonna take a break for the alleged "news". (I'm
almost sorry to take a break; that's a good subject. We'll have
to do it again.) We'll return. I have a brand new congressman,
the guy that beat Jack Brooks down in *Tejas* [i.e. Texas]. See
ya then.
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"Although not one in 10,000 Americans knows it, the Fed has a
huge secret cash stash of $20 billion, known among insiders as
the 'currency stabilization fund'..."
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RAPE OF MEXICAN ECONOMY AIDED BY "INSIDE" INFO
By Warren Hough
[Excerpts from *The Spotlight*, Feb. 6, 1995]
[...]
Dismissing official explanations, seasoned currency traders
privately blame the mess in Mexico on a series of secretive,
high-level financial maneuvers that led to the collapse of the
peso, while producing billion-dollar profits for a consortium of
megabanks and financial speculators closely linked to [Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan] Greenspan.
A detailed review of the current balance sheet of Citibank,
ranked No. 1 among U.S.-based commercial banks and among Mexico's
foreign lenders, confirms that far from suffering losses, the
money center giant made prodigious profits on the peso's plunge,
reports *Spotlight* correspondent George Nicholas from New York.
Calling its Mexican operations "stronger than ever," Citibank
reported a whopping jump of 81 percent in its earnings for the
last quarter of 1994 -- just when the peso collapsed.
-+- *Cui Bono*? -+-
Profits are soaring so nicely, "We are doubling our dividend
payout for the period," Citibank Chairman John Reed informed
stockholders on January 20, a month after Mexico's monetary
meltdown.
The simultaneous headline, "Surprise Profits for Top N.Y. Banks"
heading the financial page of *Newsday*, a major New York daily,
highlighted the profit gains Chase Manhattan Bank (19 percent)
and Chemical Bank (22 percent) realized for the same period.
"The big banks made out like bandits," says Paul Lanier, who
heads the New York trading desk of a major European investment
bank. "When I asked myself how that could have happened, I
realized that although a complex scheme is behind it all, the
essential facts are not hard to understand."
On the last day of 1994, major U.S.-based banks reported holding
Mexican treasury bonds worth an astonishing $19.8 billion -- an
extraordinary debt load. "The key is to realize that these
Mexican debentures come in two principal species," explained
Lanier. "There are the so-called '*cetes*' -- loans which are
repayable in pesos. Then there are '*tesobonos*' -- bonds
denominated in pesos which are, however, pegged to the dollar. If
the peso falls against the dollar, the payments due on these
*tesobono* bonds increase accordingly."
There is another important difference between these two main
types of Mexican treasury IOUs. "The bonds known as *cetes*
produce the highest yield," Lanier noted. "In 1994, *cetes* paid
interest at rates averaging 24 percent -- a rich return for
lenders willing to take a chance on them."
-+- Heavy In *Cetes* -+-
Most of the Mexican bonds held by Citibank and other American
investors at the beginning of 1994 were *cetes*, since the
speculation-driven U.S. money markets forced financial managers
to lock in the highest possible returns. "Of the round $20
billion in Mexican treasury IOUs held by U.S. creditors, only
$1.7 billion was in *tesobonos* [CN -- lower yield, more secure];
almost all the rest was in high-yield *cetes*," explained Lanier.
But when the economic earthquake hit Mexico on December 20,
raising urgent questions about this debt, it was discovered that
the proportion had been mysteriously reversed. In the days before
the peso began to crumble, the largest Wall Street lenders
abruptly switched from *cetes* to *tesobonos*, thus buying
insurance against the looming currency collapse.
"The big banks were secretly tipped off by Greenspan about the
coming devaluation," explained Dr. Felipe Arismendi, a U.N.
economist specializing in monetary studies. "They converted their
holdings from *cetes* to *tesobonos* a jump ahead of the market,
and came out winners while tens of thousands of small American
global-fund investors ended up losers."
But even if *tesobonos* are theoretically worth their weight in
dollars, how can Citibank be so sure the busted and beleaguered
Mexican government will pay?
"That is Greenspan's second scheme," explained Arismendi.
"Although not one in 10,000 Americans knows about it, the Fed has
a huge secret cash stash of $20 billion, known among insiders as
the 'currency stabilization fund' or 'the swap pool.'"
Greenspan secretly assured Citibank and other major lenders the
Fed would use its $20 billion kitty to compensate them for any
shortfalls in their due debt payments caused by a Mexican
default.
In that case, Congress might inquire, where is the need for the
additional $40 billion bailout guarantee fund proposed by the
Clinton administration? [CN -- *That* plan has just been dropped.]
The answer is that it would provide insurance for Wall Street
banks eager to make more mega-loans to Mexico, on even more
profitable terms.
[...]
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nor does it necessarily reflect the views of Conspiracy Nation.]
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THE RWANDA GENOCIDE
[Excerpted from "The Coming Fall of The House of
Windsor", *The New Federalist*, January 9, 1995.]
By Jeffrey Steinberg
[...]
Beginning in April of this year, the editors and staff of the
*Executive Intelligence Review* magazine launched an
investigation into the genocide in Rwanda. On April 6, 1994, the
Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were assassinated in a surface-
to-air missile attack against the airplane that was carrying them
home from a summit meeting. Within hours of the double
assassination, so-called rebel forces launched an invasion of
Rwanda from neighboring Uganda. Six months later, Rwanda had been
virtually wiped off the map. Prior to the April events, Rwanda
had enjoyed the lowest infant mortality rates and the longest
average life expectancy of any country in Africa. Today, 80
percent of the country's 7.2 million people are either dead or
living in refugee camps.
When we set out to uncover who was behind the genocide in Rwanda,
we had no preconceived notions about what we would find. Some
weeks into the investigation, we received crucial leads from
European researchers and from African diplomats: Look at the role
of the game preserves and national parks. Once we picked up this
trail, the pieces all fell in place; and all roads led back to
London, to the Club of the Isles and its Worldwide Fund for
Nature (WWF).
The WWF, renowned the world over as a charitable organization out
to protect the endangered species, is provably responsible for
the slaughter of animals and human beings all across Africa and
on other continents around the globe, on an unprecedented scale.
The 1994 Rwanda genocide is but the latest instance of the WWF in
action.
How did it work?
Since 1990, the WWF has been managing a "gorilla protection
program" in Gorilla Park in Uganda right on the Rwanda-Zaire
border, in the adjacent Volcans Park on the Rwandan side of the
border, and in Zaire's Virunga Park. Along with the Akagera Park
in Rwanda along the Kenya and Uganda border, all these parks
served as training bases, staging areas, and arms depots for the
invading "rebels" -- who were in reality all soldiers and
officers in the Ugandan Army of British puppet Yoweri Museveni.
Museveni is run by Britain's Overseas Development Minister Lady
Lynda Chalker. {1}.
So the entire Rwandan genocide had nothing to do with tribal or
civil warfare. It was a British-orchestrated assassination and
invasion program. And the WWF administered parks played a pivotal
role in the slaughter. From the same parks, the same WWF
apparatus is involved in the planned destabilization and genocide
against the rest of East Africa, beginning with Kenya and Sudan.
{2}.
Under the guise of protecting endangered species, like the
elephant, the rhinoceros, and the tiger, WWF "park rangers" carry
out assassinations and other attacks against so-called "poachers"
who in many instances turn out to be local patriotic political
leaders or intransigent farmers who refuse to abandon their land
and their food production to WWF's land confiscation programs.
[...]
All across Africa, WWF mercenary armies carry out a brutal war of
depopulation. Park rangers, armed with helicopter gun ships,
infantry weapons and light missiles, function as death squads.
Between 1987 and November 1988, under a WWF-bankrolled program
called Operation Stronghold, assassination squads under the
direction of Zimbabwe's Chief Game Ranger Glen Tatham carried out
cold-blooded murders of hundreds of so-called poachers, half of
whom were unarmed and lured into ambushes. A number were leaders
of the African National Congress' military wing. When Tatham and
his men were brought up on 70 murder charges, the Zimbabwean
parliament rushed through a bill, the Protection of the Wildlife
Indemnity Act, which gave the park rangers immunity from
prosecution for any actions they took "in the line of duty." It
was a license to kill.
[...]
-------------------------<< Notes >>-----------------------------
{1} "...parks served as training bases [for the rebels who] were
in reality all soldiers and officers in the Ugandan Army of
British puppet Yoweri Museveni." I wish some proof were offered
for these sort of claims. Still, this is the only explanation I
have heard for what really happened in Rwanda.
{2} "...[planned] genocide against the rest of East Africa." Both
Dr. Robert Strecker and researcher Mark Sato have claimed that
Africa is the target of planned genocide.
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FLYING HIGH WITH COMMANDER BILLY JEFF
"A Scenario"
[...continued...]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hillary caught sight of Marie, the French maid. "Come here,
Marie," she purred. Marie dutifully obeyed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"I note your conduct in the Lincoln Bedroom with my husband,
Billy Jeff," said Hillary.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"But Meez Heely! He was chasing *me*!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hillary ignored her. "You're fired, you slut! Pack your bags and
get on the first train back to France!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"But Meez Heely..."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Hillary glared. "Don't back sass me girl, or I'll scratch your
eyes out! Go pack your bags! You're fired! Get out!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Marie ran off, sobbing.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Commander was in Air Force One, flying down to Arkansas and
Dan Lizard's promised wild party.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff looked up, and was surprised to see Dylan Thomas! The
deceased author was somehow standing there, smoking a cigarette.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Let's 'rap', Mr. Thomas," suggested Billy Jeff. "Come on, what
do ya say? I'm an intellectual, just like you. Hey, ya know what
else -- I'm a Yale man."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"You are a pimp. Bend over, so I can grind out my cigarette on
your ass," the dead author replied.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Say! You can't talk to me like that!" shouted Billy Jeff. But
then the room became filled with, it seemed like, thousands of
faces, all of them burning with great *hatred* for Commander
Billy Jeff!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff woke, screaming. "Igor! Igor!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Igor" Stephanopoulos came rushing from the forward cabin of Air
Force One. "Yes, master?!" he inquired, alarmed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Oh, Igor, it was terrible! Dylan Thomas said I was a pimp, and
then everybody hated me! They hate me, Igor! They hate me!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Igor sat down beside Billy Jeff and consoled him. "No, master.
No, they don't hate you! They *love* you!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"No, Igor, they hate me! The American people all hate me!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Why no, master. Why, look out the window. Down there in America
they all *love* you!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"They do?" blubbered Billy Jeff.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Yes!" lied Igor. "Everybody loves you!" Then, because it usually
assuaged the frightened Billy Jeff, Igor suggested they both sing
their special song. "Come on! Let's sing the old Oxford song!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Yes!" Billy Jeff clapped his hands excitedly. "The old Oxford
song!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
They both began to sing:
Oh Oxford, we remember you.
Smoking pot and chasing chicks
And even sometimes we'd
Open a book or two!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
They exploded in laughter. "I feel better now!" exclaimed Billy
Jeff.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff lurched forward towards the cockpit. "I want to see
the view from up there," he explained.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He entered the cockpit, where Captain "Flyin' Jack" McCord was
piloting Air Force One toward Arkansas and Dan Lizard's cocaine
party.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Wow... Look at all those controls," said the Commander. He
paused a moment, then asked, "Say... Do you think you could let
me fly the plane for awhile?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Old "Flyin' Jack", veteran pilot of so many C-130 flights between
Arkansas and Nicaragua, turned toward Billy Jeff. His jaw dropped
in amazement. "You've gotta be kidding."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Naw... Come on. Let me try flyin' it."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"No way."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff moved toward Flyin' Jack. A look of menace appeared in
his eye. "Say... You look depressed, Captain McCord. You're not
about to commit 'suicide' are you?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"O.K. You can fly the plane." Flyin' Jack vacated his seat and
Commander Billy Jeff occupied it.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Billy Jeff lit a marijuana cigarette and took a deep drag. He
looked toward Flyin' Jack. "You want a hit?" he asked.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"No, thanks," replied McCord.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Suit yourself." The Commander took another drag. "Say... Where's
the accelerator on this crate?"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Flyin' Jack showed him the throttle, and Billy Jeff opened it up
all the way. Air Force One began to pick up speed.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Hey! This steering wheel not only turns, but it can also tilt
toward me!" exclaimed a surprised Billy Jeff as the aircraft went
into a steep climb.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Yahoo! We're flyin' high!" shouted Commander Billy Jeff as he
took another puff on his "reefer".
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Hey... You know, *in* *theory*, we could fly this baby way high!
I mean, *in* *theory*, we could go into outer space!" theorized
Billy Jeff.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
But just then a squawking sound began to be heard on the "squawk
box". It was Hillary!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Billy Jeff! Get me Billy Jeff!" she ordered.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"I'm right here, my dearest," replied Commander Billy Jeff.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Billy Jeff! Turn that plane around *NOW*!! That is an *order*,
Mister!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Aw but, my sweetest, I'm on an important diplomatic mission!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Save that shit for the newspapers!" screamed "Meez Heely".
"You've promised to attend the Econo-Feminists meeting, and the
sisterhood ain't gonna like it if you don't show. So turn that
plane around *now*, or there's gonna be *Hell* *to* *pay*!! Over
and out!"
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A reluctant Commander Billy Jeff yielded to this "higher power"
and relinquished control of Air Force One to Flyin' Jack McCord.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
"Aw gee whiz! I never get to have any fun," he complained to no
one in particular.
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NICK ASHTON: CITIZENS FOR HONEST GOVERNMENT
Tom Valentine had as a guest on *Radio Free America* (Shortwave,
5.065 MHz, mon-fri, 9 pm cst) on February 1, 1995, Nick Ashton of
Citizens for Honest Government. Here is an excerpt.
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[...]
TOM VALENTINE:
All right, we are back live and I've invited Nick Ashton to come
aboard for just a few minutes and catch us up on some things that
are very important out here about our President, Bill Clinton.
And I guess, Nick, the two things that you guys are really right
on: *When* are we going to hear something in the major media
about indictments, and who do you think's gonna be indicted?
NICK ASHTON:
Well, I think it is gonna be very, very soon indeed. Because for
the first time... Mr. Starr is holding, of course, grand jury
hearings -- has been since the 5th of January -- regarding the
death of Vince Foster. But I think, more carefully, he is holding
back on some indictments, because more information is coming
forth, *through* Webster Hubbell. Webb Hubbell just accepting the
two felony charges certainly negotiated a better [unclear] for
himself. And I think it's very soon indeed. There's been a *lot*
of movement in Arkansas and a lot of movement in Washington. A
lot of discussion, a lot of witnesses. And I believe it's
building up into the next 2 or 3 weeks.
*But*, Tom, I would like, if I may, to give you a little bit of a
bombshell -- if I may.
VALENTINE:
I love a bombshell.
ASHTON:
You keep up to date with everything, and we've been working very,
very hard indeed for the last three-and-a-half weeks, going
through 1500 pages of documents. You remember the 1982-1984
campaign funds [records] of Bill Clinton disappeared? Completely
disappeared.
VALENTINE:
The campaign funds [records] of the Governor.
ASHTON:
You got it.
I can tell you this: that we have the original copies of [the
records from] that campaign fund.
VALENTINE:
You found the original copies of Bill Clinton's missing campaign
fund?!
ASHTON:
That's right. We gave copies, 2 days ago, [unclear] to the FBI
(so that we are keeping on the up and up). We've been going
through and matching names, and looking at the connections. And
the one big thing that we have found: in 1982, Bill Clinton gave
himself $120,000 into his campaign. Bill Clinton didn't loan it,
he *put* $120,000 into his own campaign.
VALENTINE:
Well according to this history that *we've* been gettin', he
didn't have a dime in those days.
ASHTON:
You got it. So where *did* he get the money? [CN -- I'm sure
Clinton, skilled liar that he is, will come up with some kind of
story.] And if we cover it all the way through... And, as you
know, these reports are on a 10-day and on a 30-day basis, they
have to be filed. He never *loaned* himself the money; it wasn't
a loan, it was physical cash that went in there. And it seems
like Mr. Clinton suddenly came up with some cash. We have got
those documents. We *are* going to release those documents, not
this Friday but Friday week, or thereabouts. We are waiting for
the FBI to speak with us. And I don't think a few people are
very, very happy.
And [unclear] I'm speaking for the second time today. I was on
another program, nationally, where we were in arguments with
David Brock. You have heard of Mr. Brock?
VALENTINE:
Yes! You mentioned that! What about this little argument with Mr.
Brock?
ASHTON:
Mr. Brock wrote an article in *Forbes'* *Media Critic* magazine,
which is an *obscure* magazine put out by *Forbes*. And [he]
absolutely slated [i.e., dismissed] *The Clinton Chronicles* and
tried to say it was unsubstantiated evidence within it, and
questioned many things. The biggest problem David Brock did -- he
*thinks* he's a Washington insider, and names everything, and
puts himself on a pedestal, as if "I know everything there is to
know, and if *I* don't know it, it's not worth knowing."
Well now we know he's a little liar. We caught him in this. We
have corrected him. We have taken him down a couple of pegs.
Because [unclear] Tom, just like *The Spotlight*, you guys have
been following things. I'm glad to see that *you* come up with
the same stuff we do. In other words, when there's *two* of us
out there, and we do come up with the same corroborative
evidence, then I'm very pleased. Because it shows we are on the
same track.
VALENTINE:
Now the *Citizens for Better Government* [sic] are responsible
for *The Clinton Chronicles*, are they not?
ASHTON:
Yeah. And also the book, of course. And *The Intelligence Files*.
And coming out this month we have a *new* video, called "The
Death of Vince Foster: What Really Happened?"
And Tom, I appreciate folks like you, that are not frightened to
speak out. Because many people say, "How can people be saying
this if it's not true?" And this, I think, is very important.
People *are* ready to listen, and absorb, and be made more aware.
That's what *Citizens for Honest Government* is doing.
VALENTINE:
I think the truth is so glaring, I can't see how people can *not*
see it. In fact, here's *The Washington Post*, *afraid* to bring
out a story, for some reason. [CN -- See next Conspiracy Nation,
Vol. 3 Num. 77, for details.]
ASHTON:
I cringe. Because when Ambrose [Evans-Pritchard] told me about
this, I [unclear]. He said, "Nick, the contract was signed. They
were paying the biggest money ever to the two who had written the
story and had put it in the *Sunday Outlook*, about a 4,000 word
article."
VALENTINE:
Dr. Roger Morris and Sally Denton have done a lot of
investigating on Mena, Arkansas. And it was gonna finally come
out. And not just Clinton, but Bush and Reagan too!
ASHTON:
Absolutely. And Ed Meese is in there. Oliver North is in there. A
lot of folks.
But you see, you've gotta understand something: there is another
agenda within the political parties. And that is, *they* *want*
*to* *keep* *Clinton* *in* *until* *the* *election* *of* *next*
*year*! Because they feel that he's a man they can beat at the
election and at the ballot box. And they're absolutely wrong!
He's known as "the comeback kid"!! If you have a chance to de-
rail the President now because he is a scoundrel, and you've got
the information, I believe you go ahead with it! You don't *hold*
*back*!! You're holding back on the people of this nation!
VALENTINE:
That may be. But I want to de-rail more than Bill and Hillary
Clinton. I want to de-rail that whole bunch of PAC people behind
him.
ASHTON:
There's a *lot* of people there, Tom.
VALENTINE:
There are. These fat cats. The "immaculate they", I call 'em. And
they've had their run of manipulating for a long, long time. And
*we're* the "manipulatees" and I don't like it.
ASHTON:
That is so true. And we are making people aware, and that's why
the *Citizens for Honest Government* is out there, as the
alternate media.
VALENTINE:
Where, briefly, how do they reach *Citizens for Honest
Government*?
ASHTON:
They can join us by calling 1-800-471-0873. You can become a
member of our organization. [CN -- No cost to join.]
VALENTINE:
I've gotta run. But Nick, you're free. Thank you very much.
Excellent report. I'll give out that number again.
Nick Ashton. I'm Tom Valentine, *Radio Free America*.
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[CN -- Thanks to D.S.O. for transcribing the following.]
FROM *THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH*, 29 JANUARY 1995
ARKANSAS DRUG EXPOSE MISSES THE POST
BY AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD IN WASHINGTON
IT MIGHT almost be called The Greatest Story Never Told. The article
was typeset and scheduled to run in today's edition of *The Washington
Post*.
It had the enthusiastic backing of the editors and staff of the Sunday
Outlook section, where it was to appear after 11 weeks of
soul-searching and debate.
Lawyers had gone through the text line by line. Supporting documents
had been examined with meticulous care. The artwork and illustrations
had been completed. The contract with the authors had been signed.
Leonard Downie, the executive editor of the newspaper, had given his
final assent.
But on Thursday morning the piece was cancelled. It had been delayed
before - so often, in fact, that its non-appearance was becoming the
talk of Washington - but this time the authors were convinced that the
story was doomed and would never make it into the pages of what is
arguably the world's most powerful political newspaper. They have
withdrawn it in disgust, accusing the *Post* of a cover-up of the
biggest scandal in American history.
In stark contrast, the managing editor, Robert Kaiser, left a message
on my answering machine saying that there was really nothing to "this
non-existent story". In a subsequent conversation, he dismissed the
article as a reprise of rumours and allegations. "I am confident that
it doesn't have any great new revelations," he said.
Others are less confident. A copy of the article passed to *The Sunday
Telegraph* - not, it should be stressed, by its authors - appears to
be absolutely explosive.
Based on an archive of more than 2,000 documents, it says that western
Arkansas was a centre of international drug smuggling in the early
1980s - perhaps even the headquarters of the biggest drug trafficking
operation in history. It asks whether hundreds of millions of dollars
in profits made their way "into criminal laundering in Arkansas's
notoriously free-wheeling financial institutions and bond houses".
The activities were mixed up with a US intelligence operation at the
Mena airport in Arkansas that was smuggling weapons to the Nicaraguan
Contras.
Bill Clinton is not specifically accused of involvement, but he was
Governor of Arkansas at the time. The piece also notes that some of
his prominent backers had been the subject of extensive investigation
by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, and had been
assigned files in NADDIS - the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
Intelligence System.
The article makes clear that the alleged scandal is not confined to
the activities of the Arkansas political machine and Mr Clinton. It
embraces the highest levels of the federal government over several
years. "For three Presidents of both parties - Messrs Reagan, Bush and
Clinton - the old enduring questions of political scandal are once
again apt," the article concludes. "What did they know about Mena?
When did they know it? Why didn't they do anything to stop it?"
It is clear that *The Washington Post* took the article extremely
seriously. It was to be run at full length - roughly 4,000 words,
taking up several pages in an almost unprecedented spread across the
Sunday Outlook section.
The authors, Dr Roger Morris and Sally Denton, were told that they
were being offered the highest fee ever paid for a contribution to
Outlook. They are veteran investigators with established reputations.
Morris worked for the National Security Council staff at the White
House during the Johnson and Nixon Administrations. He has taught at
Harvard and has written a series of acclaimed books on foreign policy.
Denton is the former head of news agency UPI's special investigative
unit, and is the author of the *Bluegrass Conspiracy*, which exposed
the involvement of Kentucky political and law enforcement figures in
an international arms and drug smuggling ring.
Their research is concentrated on the activities of Barry Seal, a
legendary smuggler who operated from a company called Rich Mountain
Aviation in the Ouachita Mountains west of Little Rock.
They have his bank and telephone records, invoices, appointment books,
handwritten notes, personal diaries and secretly-recorded
conversations, as well as extensive police records and surveillance
reports.
Among other allegations they make are:
* Seal was using his fleet of aircraft to export weapons to Bolivia,
Argentina and Brazil in addition to the Nicaraguan Contras.
* The planes were carrying cocaine back up to Arkansas on the return
journey for sale in New York, Chicago, Detroit, St Louis and other
cities.
* Seal had ties to the CIA and felt that he could smuggle with
impunity.
* Nine separate attempts to investigate Mena, by both state and
federal authorities, were stymied. "Over the entire episode looms the
unmistakable dark shape of US government complicity in vast drug
trafficking and gun-running," the article says.
The broad picture is not new to readers of *The Sunday Telegraph* [DSO
- thanks to the heroic efforts of the author of this article], which
published a story making some of the same points on October 9 last
year. [DSO - headlined "Smugglers linked to Contra arms deals", that
article, also by Evans-Pritchard, is partially displayed with caption with
the present article]. *The Wall Street Journal* has also done original
reporting on the subject.
Morris and Denton have added fresh evidence but the real political
importance of the piece is the fact that it was going to run in *The
Washington Post*. The *Post* still sets the agenda in Washington and
guides many US press and TV reporters on what they are supposed to
think.
Up to now, the *Post* has conducted no more than a desultory
investigation of the Mena affair, and its reporters have persistently
treated it as a ludicrous conspiracy theory.
The treatment of the article by Morris and Denton will fuel claims
from both Left and Right that *The Washington Post* is engaged in
active suppression of the news to protect either Clinton or the CIA or
both.
"It's down to naked politics now," Morris told *The Sunday Telegraph*.
"We've jumped through every hoop. We've given them everything they've
asked for. They can't say the story's not credible now."
In the end the Mena story is going to come out, with the courts doing
the work of the press. A lawsuit in Arkansas is being used to
determine the role of both Clinton and the US federal government in
dirty tricks linked to Mena.
The case has already reached a crucial phase. A high-powered team of
lawyers has issued subpoenas to key witnesses who will be compelled to
testify under oath. Sworn depositions will rain down like confetti
over the next few months.
And if the great American newspapers do not want to cover it, the
radio talk shows certainly will.
[DSO - perhaps it's the fact that both sides of politics are involved
in this scandal that has prevented media exposure so far. Any threats
against Clinton can be met with a reciprocal threat to expose the
involvement of previous administrations. Let's hope the gridlock is
broken.]
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PESO BILL'S BAILOUT PLAN
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
Aid For Mexico: Six European countries, uneasy with President
Clinton's plan to rescue Mexico's economy, withheld their
approval for a $17.8 billion U.S.-backed loan package approved by
the International Monetary Fund. Britain, Germany, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland say that they were not
consulted and that the package for Mexico, largest in IMF
history, threatens support for Russia and eastern Europe. [USA
Today, 2/3/95]
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
[From *700 Club* broadcast, 2/3/95 interview with
Representative Duncan Hunter, R-California]
[...]
LEE WEBB:
What about this split in the GOP over the bailout. Is Speaker
Newt Gingrich carrying bipartisanship a little too far?
DUNCAN HUNTER:
Well I like to think of it as a split with President Clinton, and
I think every Republican has to take his own position.
I've looked at the situation, and a couple of things come to
mind: first, there isn't an apocalyptic situation developing in
Mexico; they've devalued the peso regularly, over the years, and
we haven't had this "the sky is falling in" scenario that Mr.
Rubin and others have painted, on Capitol Hill.
Secondly, a lot of the investors who put money in Mexico were
very sophisticated investors; they were maaking a high rate of
return. They didn't share their *profits* with the American
taxpayers. And now that it appears they're going to be taking a
loss, they want to share their *losses* with the taxpayers.
And lastly, in this scenario... in this time in government
frugality when we have passed the balanced budget amendment, and
when we are going to be slashing domestic programs across the
board -- this is a *tremendous* amount of money to be exposing.
This is twice this country's annual foreign aid budget -- going
simply to one country, Mexico.
So I think that this is the wrong time. I think there's *not* a
disaster of apocalyptic proportions developing in Mexico. And
lastly, the leadership of Mexico, the 34 or so billionaires who
*do* control politics in Mexico, seem to have less interest in
securing the future of their own country than we do! Most of them
have *their* money in *dollars*, invested in the united States.
They have their payrolls in Mexico, so when a devaluation occurs
and the peso loses its value, that means (for these big
industrialists) the cost of their payrolls has been cut by 30
percent! They *like* that.
So the Mexican elite *thrive* on devaluations. And as long as you
have that situation, you're going to have a historical trend of
devaluations, every 5 or 6 years.
BEN KINCHLOW:
Mr. Hunter, this is Ben Kinchlow, with *Newswatch*. You obviously
disagree with the President's plan. So I guess we would ask you,
what is *your* recommendation? What would *you* recommend, for
dealing with the Mexican economic crisis, since you obviously do
not feel that it is an "end of the world" situation?
DUNCAN HUNTER:
Well I think that Bill Siedleman(sp?), former chairman of the
FSLIC [Federal S&L Insurance Corp.], a very renowned,
conservative, economic leader, had it exactly right. He said,
"Listen. You had a lot of sophisticated Wall Street investors who
made a bad deal. And they made big profits, at first. Now they're
on the hook. They're gonna lose some money. And the best way to
-- when you have a debtor and a creditor: the debtor being
Mexico, and the creditors being these investors around the world
that have these *bonds* that are gonna have to be paid back this
year. Let the debtor and the creditor work this thing out between
themselves! They don't have to have a government from *any* side
interfering with this. They don't need the united States of
America to step in. So let's do it the old-fashioned way: let
Mexico restructure its debt, with its creditors, and work this
thing out with *no* interference by the united States."
LEE WEBB:
How can we force them to do that though, congressman?
DUNCAN HUNTER:
Well the way you force them to do that is by not stepping in and
bailing them out! And as these bonds become due, Mexico will have
to... Just like, if you owed money to a creditor, and you wanted
to keep your creditworthiness -- you had a bill coming due --
you'd haave to go down [and] sit down with them and work out an
arrangement to restructure your debt over a longer period of
time!
And Mexico has *enormous* assets with which they could do that!
They've refused to sell off PEMEX (that's their petroleum giant).
They've refused to do a lot of things -- take money out of the
massive portfolio of the Bank of Mexico and sell these assets or
use them as collateral to extend this debt into long-term debt.
So, once again, the elite who run and control Mexico -- the
billionaires who control Mexico -- have much less interest in
addressing this devaluation of the peso than we do! Which is an
ironic situation. They *thrive* off peso devaluations. They
profit off them. As long as that occurs, we're not gonna see
these crises... we're gonna see these devaluations in a regular,
historic pattern.
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
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* *
* Did John Wilkes Booth act alone in the assassination of *
* Abraham Lincoln or was he a pawn of higher-ups? *
* *
* Was the man shot at Garrett's farm and identified as John *
* Wilkes Booth actually Booth, or was he a substitute? *
* *
* Why was the existence of Booth's diary hidden until long *
* after the famous 1865 Conspiracy Trial, and when revealed, *
* why had 18 pages been cut? Who removed those 18 pages, and *
* when? *
* *
* A surprising collection of newly discovered (c. 1977), *
* unpublished, historical documents answers these and many *
* more questions, solving the most famous political *
* assassination mystery in American history. *
* *
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The massive cover-up effort by government officials to prevent
the American public from ever learning the real truth about the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln, suppressed evidence which
presumably had gone to the graves of those connected with the
murder conspiracy, is now [c. 1977] surfacing and answers many of
the questions still surrounding Lincoln's assassination.
-- Was there an organized government conspiracy to get rid of
Lincoln?
-- Why, despite countless threats and known plots, did the War
Department not provide Lincoln with adequate protection?
-- Why did so many invited guests refuse to accept Lincoln's
invitation to Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14?
-- Why was the President's single bodyguard absent from his post
during the murder, and never punished or even questioned?
-- Why were all the escape routes out of Washington closed except
the route Booth used?
-- Who, for hours after the murder, blacked out commercial
telegraph lines from Washington?
-- Why was the existence of Booth's diary hidden until long after
the famous 1865 Conspiracy Trial, and when revealed, why had 18
pages been cut out?
-- Who removed those 18 pages, why and when?
Traditional historical writers have perpetuated a cover-up by
*unquestioningly* relying on 1865 government data and documents
as if they were gospel. In writing this book, Balsiger and
Sellier have adopted the premise that official government
statements from that time might not be true. Instead, the
authors' approach to re-examining the Lincoln assassination was
to try to locate local private unpublished document collections
in the possession of the heirs of significant Lincoln era
decision makers. They reason that if official government
statements from that time are, in fact, true, then they can be
authenticated through papers in private collections.
The documents used by the authors to re-construct events that
took place before and after the assassination include secret
service documents, congressmen's diaries, old letters, book
manuscripts, deathbed confessions, secret cipher-coded messages,
and purported missing pages of the John Wilkes Booth diary.
Among the experts consulted during the writing of this book were:
1) Dr. Ray A. Neff, a professor at Indiana State University [c.
1977] and author of a scholarly book on Lincoln entitled *Wounded
in the House of Friends*.
2) Dr. Richard D. Mudd, grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd who was
sentenced to life in prison as a Booth co-conspirator.
3) Theodore Roscoe, author of *Web of Conspiracy*, which suggests
that the Secret Service may have been indirectly involved in the
assassination.
Among the primary sources used in the writing of the book,
probably the most sensational and valuable document consists of
the missing Booth diary pages, discovered in 1974 by Americana
collector and appraiser Joseph Lynch. The authors acquired a full
transcript of the contents of the missing pages and had the
contents evaluated by historical experts, but have not [c. 1977]
been able to acquire copies of the actual pages to authenticate
the handwriting.
The recently discovered [c. 1977] pages from Booth's diary
delineate Booth's involvement in the conspiracy plot with trusted
Lincoln friends, Confederate leaders, War Department Secretary
Stanton, and northern businessmen.
In this book, the authors have attempted to re-construct as
accurately as possible the conspiracy events prior to the
assassination and during the following cover-up. What you are
about to read is a synopsis of their unraveling of the most
shocking political assassination in American history.
Normally, a state of war heightens and centralizes the power of
the ruling group. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton held a great
deal of power during the Civil War. "The War Secretary controlled
the nation's military news through the nationalization of the
wires. He also controlled the transportation system. Under his
direction... control over private citizens was almost complete...
Lincoln himself was denied the right to see telegrams that came
into the War Department in cipher to be decoded."
Moreover, Stanton was not noted for speaking well of Lincoln. He
had referred to him as "the original gorilla," a "long-armed
baboon," and as "that giraffe."
The authors, Balsiger and Sellier, state that a raid planned at
that time (1864) by Lincoln, Stanton, and others associated with
Lincoln's presidency gives evidence of an atmosphere of plotting
and distrust within that small group. The "Dahlgren Raid," as
planned by Lincoln, had as its ostensible purpose the freeing of
Federal prisoners being held in Richmond, Virginia, at that time
the capital of the confederacy. In addition, Lincoln wanted
posters to be placed everywhere along the path of the raid
promising amnesty to any confederates who would take the oath of
allegiance to the Union.
According to the authors, however, and unbeknownst to Lincoln,
the true purpose of the Dahlgren Raid was to assassinate
confederate president Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. Besides
Stanton, certain operatives of various special police forces,
including the newly formed secret service, were also aware of the
true nature of the plan. Prominent among these operatives was
"Col. Lafayette Baker, a man of highly questionable integrity,
[who] headed the North's National Detective Police (NDP), an
undercover, anti-subversive, spy organization under the direction
of Secretary of War Stanton."
The Dahlgren Raid failed and its leader, Colonel Dahlgren, was
killed. On his body, the confederates found two documents. One
document directed that Dahlgren and his soldiers were to free
federal prisoners being held near Richmond. "The second document,
unsigned, seemed to be an order: 'Once in the city [Richmond], it
must be destroyed, and Jeff Davis and cabinet killed.'"
When this news became widely known in the confederacy,
southerners were furious. "Gen. Robert E. Lee... officially asked
his Union counterpart, Gen. George Meade, if the Union's true
motives were contained in the papers."
The authors claim that John Wilkes Booth met with a Colonel
William A. Browning, secretary to future (2nd term) vice-
president Andrew Johnson during the summer of 1864. They claim
that Booth worked as a special envoy for secret peace
negotiations being attempted at the time. "Booth quietly made the
trip to Richmond with proper military passes issued by both Union
and Confederate governments." Unfortunately, while on his mission
in the south Booth saw proof that the Dahlgren Raid had had as
one of its goals the murder of Jefferson Davis and his cabinet.
Infuriated by what he had learned, Booth resigned from his
assignment as special envoy.
Because the great drama of the Civil War takes center stage, most
people are not as aware that in "...1864, the Union was close to
dictatorship."
"All the elements were in motion: transportation and
communications were nationalized, the writ of *habeas corpus*
suspended. Military tribunals had replaced civilian trials...
Dictatorship was an evil lurking behind the scenes. [However] the
name of the would be dictator was not discernible to the public."
The previously mentioned National Detective Police (NDP)
constituted a force of 2,000 "detectives" which acted as a law
unto itself. Under the leadership of the already mentioned
Lafayette Baker, it operated without judicial constraint under
the direction of Secretary of War Stanton. "Baker held
authority... because a highly placed Lincoln cabinet official
[Stanton] had set in motion all machinery necessary to become
dictator of the nation."
"But first, Abraham Lincoln had to be removed from office."
During the summer of that year [1864], Lincoln faced mounting
dissension within his own political party. A powerful faction
within his party, known as the "Radical Republicans," did not
want Lincoln to seek re-election. That summer a group of them
introduced the Wade-Davis Bill to the 38th Congress.
The Wade-Davis Bill was "...a version of postwar reconstruction
diametrically opposed to the President's proposal." Lincoln
favored a "soft" peace plan, "designed to bind up the nation's
wounds with all possible speed so that the nation could move
forward and leave the events of the tragic war behind." Since the
president had the right to pardon, Lincoln reasoned that he could
offer a general amnesty to all who would take a loyalty oath to
the Union.
However, "under the Radicals' Wade-Davis Bill each seceded state
was to be treated as a conquered country... [The Radicals were]
demanding Rebel property be confiscated and proposed that the
conquered South should be considered a prize of war." [B.R. --
Thus, a *lot* of money was at stake in the argument.]
This was a tough time for Lincoln. He was up for re-election and
it was the general opinion that there was little chance of his
being re-elected. The war was dragging on and the casualties were
multiplying. In addition to the dissent within his own political
party, there was the constant threat of assassination. During
that summer of 1864, there were incessant rumors of assassination
plots.
The authors assert that during that summer of 1864, in Maryland,
"...a group of planters had gathered to discuss ways of ending
atrocities [by Federal troops] in the counties of Prince Georges,
St. Marys, and Charles. Among the Maryland planters were Patrick
C. Martin... Dr. William Queen, and Dr. Samuel Mudd." The authors
contend that at this meeting a plot to kidnap Lincoln was
discussed and that it was suggested that John Wilkes Booth would
be a good person to bring in on the plot.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Barbee, David Rankin, "The Murder of Mrs. Surratt" }
{ (Speech at the Emerson Institute, Washington, D.C., }
{ Feb. 25, 1950). Margaret K. Bearden Collection, }
{ Rochester, NY }
{ }
{ Benedict, Michael Les, *A Compromise of Principle: The }
{ Politics of Radicalism* (W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1974) }
{ }
{ Committee on the Conduct of the War research files. }
{ Dr. Richard D. Mudd Collection, Saginaw, MI }
{ }
{ Lamon, Ward Hill, *Recollections of Abraham Lincoln* }
{ (University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1895) }
{ }
{ Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. *History of American Presidential }
{ Elections, Vol. II, 1848-1896 (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1971) }
{ }
{ Unpublished Voluntary Statement of Michael O'Laughlin, }
{ April 27, 1865, originally in the Benn Pitman Collection, }
{ Cincinnati, OH Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ Missing Booth Diary Pages. In the private collection of }
{ Stanton descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts }
{ of Americana appraiser, Joseph Lynch of Worthington, MA }
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
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By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
[...continued...]
"Near the end of September, 1864, Patrick Martin [, organizer of
the previously mentioned southern Maryland planter's meeting,]
met with John Wilkes Booth." As a result of this meeting, "Booth
received instructions to meet [Confederate agents] Clement Clay
and Jacob Thompson in Montreal." Booth arrived in Montreal on
October 17th or 18th of 1864.
John Wilkes Booth is a shadowy historical figure. While
ostensibly an actor, he is known to have smuggled medicines and
other contraband into the south. For example, at one time Booth
"obtained 1,000 ounces of valuable quinine, hid the contraband
medicine in a trunk, and sent it by blockade runner to Richmond."
Booth was also involved with other smugglers from that time,
including Confederate courier John Surratt and a childhood friend
named Michael O'Laughlin. One of the front operations they used
for their activities was the Chaffey Company at 178 1/2 Water
Street in New York. Another key figure operating out of this
address "was Lafayette Baker [head of the previously mentioned
National Detective Police (NDP)] who began using Chaffey's in
July."
Instead of turning in confiscated contraband to the military
commissary, Baker began using the Chaffey Company to sell it
to interested buyers. This was especially true for cotton which
had risen from 10 cents/pound to $1.00/pound. "A single bale was
now worth more than $1,000, and a seized shipment of several
bales could be quietly sold for a tidy sum. At the rate Baker was
making deposits, his account would hit $150,000 by the end of the
year."
While in Montreal, Booth was recruited by Confederate agents Clay
and Thompson to organize the kidnapping of Abraham Lincoln. John
H. Surratt, Jr. was suggested to Booth as a good man to help in
his organizing efforts. When Booth returned to Washington,
"$12,499.28 had been transferred from the Bank of Montreal to
Booth's account at the Chaffey Company in New York. This was, to
the penny, what Daniel Watson, a Tennessee cotton speculator, had
deposited in the Bank of Montreal on July 4 for some unknown
reason."
"Booth wrote in his diary, 'I am to find and send North 15 men
whom I trust. The messenger brings me $20,000 in gold to recruit
them. I'm to start at once.'" It is somewhat suspicious that "the
messenger who brought the gold was connected with the Union's
Judge Advocate General's Office."
In addition to the kidnap plot that Booth was involved with,
"another highly secret plot was developing inside the government
in Washington... A hint of the Northern plot was turned up by NDP
operatives." Members of Lincoln's own party, including Radical
Republicans were plotting to "have him kidnapped and kept out of
sight until fake charges... [were] arranged to impeach him."
On November 8, 1864, Abraham Lincoln received 55 percent of the
popular vote and was returned to office. One of the things which
helped him win re-election was that the Union army had won timely
victories. He was also helped by the military vote itself. He
received 116,887 military ballots as compared to 33,748 cast for
the Democratic candidate McClellan. "Lincoln had pressured
commanders to furlough soldiers home in time for the election."
Around this time, the National Detective Police (NDP) had made
progress in its investigations into possible kidnap plots against
Lincoln. "The secret police had also discovered [John Wilkes]
Booth's involvement." The authors mention a Confederate Major
Marsh Frye who they claim was a double agent. They claim also
that Booth's wife had been working with this Major Frye as a spy
and courier for the Confederacy but that she was unaware that
Frye was in reality an agent for the Union.
Another informant cultivated by the NDP at the time was one
"James William Boyd, prisoner of war... [who had] been a captain
in the Rebel secret service." The authors mention in passing that
this Captain Boyd had the same initials as John Wilkes Booth.
[B.R. So at this point we have a lot of loose threads. It will be
interesting to see where they lead.]
According to the authors, Booth also met with John Surratt around
this time. "Booth's diary claimed they joined together and began
recruiting men for the [planned] kidnapping."
In the Fall of 1864, Booth made a trip to Richmond where he met
with one Judah Benjamin, a British lawyer, Confederate Vice
President Alexander Stephens, and Jefferson Davis, President of
the Confederacy. "Out of this meeting came detailed instructions
for Booth. An order for $70,000, 'drawn on a friendly bank,' was
also handed the actor."
"Though on opposite sides of a civil war, the Northern
speculators and the Confederate politicians had a common
commodity problem. The speculators needed cotton. The south
needed meat. The Union's blockade prevented cotton from leaving
the South." After the 1864 election, Booth met with banker-
financier Jay Cooke at the Astor House in New York. Cooke's
brother Henry was also in attendance and spoke highly of the
aforementioned Judah Benjamin. This was a curious circumstance in
that Mr. Benjamin was one of the top men in the Confederacy
whereas Cooke was one of the bankers financing the Union side in
the war. Also in attendance at the meeting were "Thurlow Weed,
Samuel Noble, a New York Cotton broker, and Radical Republican
Zachariah Chandler, Michigan senator."
"In his diary Booth later recorded, 'Each and every one asserted
that he had dealings with the Confederate States and would
continue to whenever possible.'"
According to the authors, the link between most or all of these
groups was economic. Due to the Union blockade of the
Confederacy, the South, northern speculators, and the British
were all suffering. Because the South could not export its
cotton, mills in Britain and France were shutting down. The
blockade also cut off Northern moneymen from lucrative
investments in the cotton trade.
According to the recently recovered Booth diary pages, while in
Montreal near the end of 1864 Booth saw National Detective Police
(NDP) head Lafayette Baker in the company of Confederate agent
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker. Later that day, Booth met with Tucker
and Canadian Confederate secret service chief Jacob Thompson.
Booth delivered coded messages to each of them and Thompson gave
Booth a satchel containing $50,000 in bank notes. He was to
deliver $20,000 of this money to Senator Benjamin Wade, co-author
of the previously mentioned Wade-Davis Bill. Thus, if the missing
Booth diary pages are to be believed, we have evident collusion
between Radical Republicans and the Confederate secret service.
Furthermore, some connection between the head of the Union's NDP
and the southern secret service seems likely.
[B.R. -- Yet this all hinges on the veracity of the recently
recovered (c. 1977) Booth Diary Pages. The mystery deepens in
that I am writing this in 1993; whatever became of the 18 pages
that were recovered? Were they authenticated? Were they
published?]
Around this time (December 1864), one of Lincoln's most trusted
bodyguards, Ward Lamon, tried to warn Lincoln that he was in
great danger. When Lincoln shrugged off Lamon's warning, Lamon
threatened to resign stating that the President's life was sure
to be taken unless he were more cautious. The NDP also tried to
warn Lincoln of the danger he was in. Twice they notified
Secretary of War Stanton that a plot was underway to kidnap
Lincoln.
The authors furthermore claim that a Major Thomas Eckert, a
member of Stanton's office in the War Department, also had
knowledge of the proposed kidnapping of the president.
Booth returned to Washington, carrying the previously mentioned
satchel containing $50,000. He delivered portions of this money
to Senators Conness, Wade, and Chandler of the Radical Republican
faction of Lincoln's party. According to NDP chief Lafayette
Baker's notes, Senator Conness was involved with at least one of
the upcoming kidnap plots.
The authors contend that there had to be some hidden
person/persons linking the Radical Republicans (who were seeking
to control the Union and to ravage the post-war South) with the
Confederate secret service. The plan of the Radical Republicans
was to "seize control of the executive branch... [and] control
reconstruction." Why the Confederate secret service would team up
with them is not clear. Superficially, these two groups should
have had nothing in common.
Around this time Secretary of War Stanton personally ordered that
Federal prisoner Captain James W. Boyd (initials J.W.B., same as
John Wilkes Booth) was to be delivered to the Provost Marshal in
Washington, D.C.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Andrew Potter Papers, Ray A. Neff Collection, Marshall, IL }
{ }
{ Baker, Lafayette C., *History of the United States Secret }
{ Service* (L.C. Baker, Philadelphia, 1967) }
{ }
{ Brennan, John C., "General Bradley T. Johnson's Plan to }
{ Abduct President Lincoln," Chronicles of St. Mary's County }
{ Historical Society, (Leonardtown, MD) Vol. 22, Nov. 1974 }
{ }
{ Clarke, Asia Booth, *The Unlocked Book: A Memoir of John }
{ Wilkes Booth* (G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1938) }
{ }
{ Eisenschiml, Otto, *Why Was Lincoln Murdered?* (Little, }
{ Brown and Co., Boston, 1937) }
{ }
{ Gray, Clayton, *Conspiracy in Canada* (L'Atelier Press, }
{ Montreal, 1957) }
{ }
{ Lamon, Ward Hill, *Recollections of Abraham Lincoln* }
{ (University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1895) }
{ }
{ Lafayette Baker's Unpublished Cipher-Coded Book Manuscript, }
{ 1868, Dr. Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ "Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 68, "Martin Family," }
{ Fall 1973 }
{ }
{ Missing Booth Diary Pages. In the private collection of }
{ Stanton descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts }
{ of Americana appraiser, Joseph Lynch of Worthington, MA }
{ }
{ Mogelever, Jacob, *Death to Traitors* (Doubleday & Co., }
{ New York, 1960) }
{ }
{ Peterson, T.B., *The Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators* }
{ (T.B. Peterson and Brothers, Philadelphia, 1865) }
{ }
{ Roscoe, Theodore, *The Web of Conspiracy* (Prentice-Hall, }
{ Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1959) }
{ }
{ Weichmann, Louis J., *A True History of the Assassination of }
{ Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865*, ed. Floyd }
{ E. Risvold, (Alfred E. Knopf, New York, 1975) }
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
[...continued...]
Among Booth's earliest recruits in the plan to kidnap Lincoln
were Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlin. Booth and O'Laughlin
had been involved in a smuggling ring early on in the war. They
had helped ship contraband quinine, morphine, and other medicines
to the South. "O'Laughlin believed Booth had been in charge of
the operation but knew the actor had had the help of men in the
government."
Besides Arnold and O'Laughlin, Booth recruited David Herold,
George Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, and Lewis Payne into his
kidnapping team. The original plan was to capture Lincoln when he
was on one of his frequent unguarded trips from the White House
to the Soldiers Home. Later, however, Booth decided on a more
dramatic location for the kidnap attempt -- Ford's Theater.
On the night of January 18, 1865, all was in readiness. Lincoln
was expected to attend a performance at Ford's Theater that
evening. "Everything was ready -- two sets of handcuffs, gags and
ropes. The stage lights were to be killed on cue. A vehicle with
side curtains was stationed in the alley behind the theater."
Unfortunately for the plotters, the night was stormy and Lincoln
decided to stay at home.
The leaders of the bankers and speculators plot to kidnap Lincoln
decided to replace Booth with a military man because they decided
that a civilian would not be the best person to handle the actual
kidnapping. All Booth could learn at first was that he had been
replaced by a Rebel officer, a "Captain B."
Captain James William Boyd "bore a resemblance to John Wilkes
Booth, whose initials he shared." Boyd had served as head of the
Confederate secret service in West Tennessee before being
captured in August 1863 by members of the National Detective
Police (NDP). After being imprisoned for months, he finally
succumbed to NDP pressure and became a Rebel turncoat.
For awhile, Boyd was "paid $90 a month and, in return, reported
on prisoners' activities and plans." However, when his life
became endangered because the other prisoners had grown
suspicious of him, he was released from Federal prison and given
a new assignment. He was sent "on a mysterious mission that would
take him to Canada, then Mexico."
The authors mention in passing that Boyd suffered from an old
wound. "Boyd's leg near his ankle had continued to give him
trouble. A bone and muscle infection had developed from the wound
that had never healed properly."
Besides the change in leadership from Booth to Boyd, the
"speculators, with Captain Boyd as their leader, appeared to have
a new strategy... They were not going to take Lincoln to
Richmond, but to Bloodsworth Island in Chesapeake Bay and
'legally' dispose of him."
In early March of 1865, inside "the nation's governmental centers
and in New York, the country's financial heart, many were not
happy."
"Power plays were going on behind almost every office door;
tremendous pressures were building. There was no end to the
intrigues, lies, deceits, and double-dealing."
For the turncoat Rebel agent, Captain James William Boyd, the
sense of intrigues surrounding him was so great that he was
unsure of exactly who his real leader was. "He had the impression
the mastermind was not one, but a number of highly placed men
working together on a daring plan."
Whoever it was that was running things had sent Boyd on a journey
through Maryland, headed south. In Maryland, wherever "he
stopped, he asked discreet questions concerning roads through the
area."
For John Wilkes Booth, the urgency of achieving success in his
kidnap plot was mounting. It became more and more apparent that
the North was going to win the war. Therefore it was increasingly
important that the South have *some* sort of advantage, from
whatever source. Booth became more desperate to kidnap the
president. He hoped that somehow the South could "yet snatch
victory from defeat."
"It looked as though Grover's Theatre would offer the best
opportunity to attempt the abduction on March 15." Booth
assembled his team of recruits and prepared to make a kidnap
attempt. However, on March 14th the President became so ill that
the cabinet met in his bedroom. Because it seemed unlikely that
Lincoln would go to the theatre the following day, the kidnapping
attempt was called off.
When the Grover's Theatre kidnapping attempt was called off, some
of the co-conspirators had gone to Ford's Theatre to see a
performance of *Jane Shore*. During the intermission, Booth
briefly visited the "Presidential Box," a special area reserved
for president Lincoln when he attended the theatre.
In the early morning of March 16th, Booth met with his recruits.
One of them had received word that Lincoln would be visiting the
Seventh Street Hospital-Soldiers Home. Booth came up with another
plan. On a portion of the road that the President was to travel,
the plotters would ride out of the woods and surround Lincoln's
carriage. However, when they tried to carry out their plot later
that day, the carriage that they surrounded did not contain
Lincoln. "Booth's third kidnap attempt had now failed."
The following morning, Booth was visited in his Washington hotel
room by Colonel Lafayette Baker, head of the National Detective
Police (NDP). Booth may have been understandably panicy that the
formal head of the Union's secret service was paying him a visit.
It may have been that he was fearful that his attempts at
kidnapping the President had been found out. However Baker's
mission that day was to deliver three sealed envelopes from
(respectively) Jefferson Davis [President of the Confederacy!],
Judah Benjamin, and Clement Clay. One of the messages that Booth
received directed him to pay Baker a sum of money.
After Baker had received the money from Booth and had left, Booth
was probably astonished. He immediately sent a note by special
courier to Confederate agent Judah Benjamin in Richmond. He then
went to the office of Radical Republican, Senator John Conness.
Conness had been connected with NDP head Baker as a member of a
vigilante group in California during the 1850's. He calmed
Booth's fears and assured him that Baker could be trusted.
Not long after this meeting with Senator Conness, Booth received
a reply to his message to Judah Benjamin in Richmond. It said
that Baker was to be trusted.
"Word now came to Booth that the President would pass a certain
spot on Saturday, March 18. Booth and an unknown number of
conspirators waited seven hours. When the President did approach,
he was escorted by a squad of cavalry." Booth called off this
fourth kidnapping attempt.
Following this latest attempt, NDP head Baker and a Lt. Col.
Everton J. Conger called on Booth. Booth did not record the topic
of this second meeting with Baker.
Booth attended another of many Washington parties. At this party,
he was approached by Senator Conness who informed him that he
was expecting information shortly as to Lincoln's planned
movements within the Washington area.
"Booth thought Yankee politicians were beyond belief. Their only
interest was money. They had no patriotism, no personal honor.
They were cowards, hiding behind their office, spouting
hypocrisy."
On Sunday, March 19th, Conness forwarded to Booth information on
the next kidnap possibility. "The conspirators rushed to the
location named. And waited in vain... The President did not
appear."
"On Monday, March 20, the conspirators made a sixth attempt at a
kidnap. About the time the President was supposed to pass the
ambush site, a warning was given Booth that the kidnapping was
expected. Booth ordered his men to scatter, sure he had been
betrayed."
Later that evening, Booth and two of his gang waited for Lincoln
in another spot by which Lincoln was supposed to be travelling.
When a horseman with a group of soldiers approached, Booth fired
a shot and the President's hat flew off. One of Booth's
companions, Lewis Payne, also fired twice but missed. Booth and
his companions "spurred furiously away, the President's armed
escort thundering after them... Within a couple of miles the
conspirators had eluded pursuit."
Shortly thereafter, Booth was visited by the previously mentioned
Lt. Col. Conger. Conger carried orders that Booth was to halt his
efforts. Booth refused. Conger then told Booth that "If you make
another move without orders, you and your friends are going to be
found in the Potomac."
On Monday, April 3, 1865, Richmond fell and the Confederate
cabinet fled the city.
"For Booth, time had about run out." On Saturday, April 1, he
left Washington for New York where he met with Northern cotton
speculators. Booth informed these people his apprehensions that
their plot was about to be betrayed by NDP head Lafayette Baker.
At the end of the meeting, "Booth was instructed to return to
Washington to wait for orders."
On Thursday, President Lincoln had authorized Gen. Godfrey
Weitzel to give permission to the "gentlemen who had acted as the
Legislature of Virginia in support of the Rebellion" to meet and
take measures to withdraw that state's troops from fighting the
Union soldiers. "Secretary of War Stanton saw the action as
allowing Virginia lawmakers to proceed as though nothing had
happened, setting a precedent for all future insurgent
legislatures to reconvene and be recognized." Needless to say,
this would severely curtail the postwar plans of Radical
Republicans and Northern businessmen for "reconstruction" in the
South. "The authorization had Washington in an uproar."
On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant. "Lee's action, as
supreme Confederate Commander meant the war was over."
With the end of the war, Booth now expected that Northern
politicians and their business friends would strip the South
bare. He also wrote in his diary that "I believe that [Major]
Eckert, [Lafayette] Baker, and the Secretary [of War, Stanton]
are in control of our activities."
There were at least three good reasons that Stanton could be
behind Booth and his plotters: (1) Removing Lincoln would assure
that Stanton would continue as War Secretary, (2) Under the
proposed "reconstruction," the "War Department and the Secretary
of War would be vital in a military occupation of conquered
states." Thus, Stanton would wield tremendous power during the
proposed "reconstruction." Lincoln opposed this planned
despoliation of the South, and (3) By remaining in power, Stanton
could further his own ambitions to be president.
It has already been shown that Stanton disliked Lincoln. Stanton
even went so far in his audacity to *countermand* Lincoln's order
to Gen. Weitzel which had given the Legislature of Virginia
permission to reconvene. Lafayette Baker notes in his unpublished
book that "That's the first time I knew Stanton was one of those
responsible for the assassination plot." Baker even feared that
he himself would be used as a "sacrificial goat" [i.e. a "patsy"]
by Stanton.
Booth also was apprehensive about what the hidden forces plotting
against Lincoln might do to Booth himself. In his diary he wrote,
"If by this act, I am slain, they too shall be cast into hell,
for I have given information to a friend who will have the nation
know who the traitors are."
At the White House, Lincoln's trusted bodyguard, Ward Lamon, had
obtained a special pass from the President which allowed him and
an unspecified friend to travel from Washington to Richmond. On
the night before Lamon left the capital he urged the President
not to go out after nightfall, especially not to the theatre.
Meanwhile, Rebel turncoat Capt. James William Boyd had been
acquiring horses in southern Maryland. While there, Boyd had
learned that one Thomas Watkins had attempted to sexually assault
the wife of one of Boyd's colleagues. Boyd went and shot Watkins
in the back of the head. Although the Federal government was
aware of what Boyd had done, it did nothing. "His [Boyd's]
freedom was more important to someone than having him tried for
murder."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Arnold, Samuel B., *Defence and Prison Experiences of a }
{ Lincoln Conspirator* (The Book Farm, Hattiesburg, MS, 1943) }
{ }
{ Captain James William Boyd Letter to Moe Stevens, Boyd Papers }
{ Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ John Surratt Lecture at Rockville, Maryland, December 6, 1870 }
{ (Evening Star, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 1870) }
{ }
{ Lafayette Baker's Unpublished Cipher-Coded Book Manuscript, }
{ 1868, Dr. Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ Lee, Thomas C., "The Role of Georgetown's Dr. Samuel A. Mudd }
{ in the Lincoln Conspiracy," Georgetown Medical Bulletin, }
{ May, 1976 }
{ }
{ Major Thomas T. Eckert Letter to Col. Lafayette C. Baker, }
{ April 22, 1865. In the private collection of Stanton }
{ descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts of }
{ Americana appraiser, Joseph Lynch }
{ }
{ Missing Booth Diary Pages. In the private collection of }
{ Stanton descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts }
{ of Americana appraiser, Joseph Lynch of Worthington, MA }
{ }
{ Oldroyd, Osborn H., *The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: }
{ Flight, Pursuit, Capture and Punishment of the }
{ Conspirators* (Privately Published, Washington, D.C. 1901) }
{ }
{ Pitman, Benn, *The Assassination of President Lincoln and the }
{ Trial of the Conspirators* (Funk & Wagnalls, New York, }
{ 1954) }
{ }
{ Shelton, Vaughan, *Mask for Treason: The Lincoln Murder }
{ Trial* (Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1965) }
{ }
{ Shutes, Milton H., *Lincoln's Emotional Life* (Dorrance and }
{ Co., Philadelphia, 1957) }
{ }
{ Wilson, Francis, *John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of }
{ Lincoln's Assassination* (Houghton Mifflin Co., New York, }
{ 1929) }
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
[...continued...]
According to the authors, Booth's plan after having carried out
the abduction of Lincoln was to go to Europe. They state that
Booth had arranged for extensive bank credits in England and
France.
Yet as Booth's desperation grew, the original kidnapping plot
gradually became an assassination plot.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, workers began preparing the
"Presidential Box" at Ford's theatre because they had received
word that Lincoln would be attending the theatre that night. To
get to the Presidential Box, one needed to pass into a single
small antechamber whose entrance would be constantly guarded.
Booth had learned that the President would be attending the
theatre. According to an unpublished, voluntary statement by
Booth's friend, Michael O'Laughlin, Booth met O'Laughlin in front
of Ford's Theatre at about 7:45 pm that evening. Booth was upset.
O'Laughlin quotes him as saying, "Everything's gone wrong! The
major sent word that he would not be here... The major with the
President has refused to go through with it... Everyone wants to
call it off again. I refuse. It must be done tonight!"
That morning, there had been a cabinet meeting at the White
House. At that meeting, Stanton had again argued for the Radical
Republicans plan of "reconstruction." At the meeting, Stanton
again pushed for this plan which favored that the "...South be
treated as a conquered nation and ruled by military occupation."
However, as already noted, Lincoln opposed this plan for harsh
treatment of the former Confederacy. What is more, Lincoln's
political strength was at a high point. "He had kept his pledge
to keep the Union intact. He had freed the slaves. To date, he
had won everything for which he had fought." Lincoln would be a
powerful opponent to the hopes for a postwar pillaging of the
South.
That evening, one of Lincoln's bodyguards, John Parker, was late
in arriving. Nonetheless, the President allowed William Crook,
another of his bodyguards, to go home without waiting for
Parker's arrival. As Crook was leaving, Lincoln said to him,
"Good-bye, Crook." According to Crook this was unusual in that
Lincoln had heretofore always said "Good night, Crook."
At about this time, in the early evening of April 14, 1865, while
Lincoln was preparing to leave with his wife for Ford's Theatre,
his death was *already* being reported in scattered parts of the
country:
*** In St. Joseph, Minnesota, located over 80 miles from the
nearest telegraph, the news was circulating that the President
had been murdered.
*** That morning, residents of Booth's hometown of Manchester,
New Hampshire, "were speaking in the past tense of Lincoln's
assassination, discussing the event as if it had already
happened."
*** At 2:30 pm, a writer on the Middletown, New York *Whig Press*
asserted that he had been informed that the President had been
shot.
*** The *Newburgh Journal* confirmed the reports in the *Whig
Press* regarding Lincoln's having been shot.
Thus, from 12 to 4 hours *before* the actual assassination, it
was already being reported.
One of Lincoln's bodyguards, John Parker, arrived at Ford's
Theatre before Lincoln and checked out the lobby, the stairs to
the "dress circle," and the presidential box. The Lincoln party,
consisting of Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln, Maj. R. Rathbone, and his
fiancee, Miss Clara Harris, arrived at the theatre after the
play, "Our American Cousin" had already begun. They were
accompanied by Lincoln's personal aide, Charles Forbes.
After the presidential party had been seated in the presidential
box, guard John Parker commenced to stand guard at his assigned
post. However, after a short while, Parker moved from there to an
empty seat at the front of the gallery from which spot he could
watch the play. Lincoln's back was now totally unguarded.
But Parker soon grew bored with the play. He went downstairs to
the lobby, went outside, and walked up to the presidential
carriage. Inside, the driver was sleeping. Parker woke the driver
and asked him if he would like to join him for a beer at the nearby
Taltavul's Star Saloon. The driver accepted the invitation. "As
the two men passed through the theatre doors on their way to... [the
saloon], they saw [presidential aid] Forbes who had left the
presidential party alone in the box. Forbes joined Parker and
Burns [the driver] at the bar."
As the play progressed, Parker, Forbes, and Burns enjoyed their
beers in the saloon. Booth entered the theatre, climbed the
stairs, and entered the presidential box. "Booth took a quick
step from the antechamber, crossed the three or four feet to the
President's back, and quickly extended the pistol. Lincoln
started to turn his head to the left. The derringer's explosion
ripped through the laughter."
"The assailant dropped his pistol and sprang toward the box
railing. Rathbone thought he heard someone cry, 'Freedom!' Booth
cried, 'Sic semper tyrannis!' Thus always to tyrants."
Major Rathbone jumped up and grappled with Booth. Booth made a
slash with a large knife towards the major's chest. Rathbone
deflected the blow with his left arm and was badly cut between
the elbow and the shoulder.
"Booth vaulted over the railing to the stage apron a dozen feet
below... [Upon landing, he found that] the fall had snapped his
[Booth's] left tibia about two inches above the ankle."
Nonetheless, Booth was able to stagger towards the backstage
exit, mount a horse, and ride off.
Doctors in the audience examined the President's wound and
pronounced it fatal. "The President's eyes showed evidence of
brain damage. The bullet had gone in the left side of the head,
behind the ear near the top of the spine. There was no exit
wound."
"Fingers, thrust into the wound, could not touch the bullet. From
the patient's slightly protruding right eye, the doctors
correctly concluded the 44 caliber ball had entered behind the
left ear and lodged in the brain just behind the right eye."
At Secretary of State Seward's home there had also been an
assassination attempt. At the Seward mansion, five people had
been attacked. Among those attacked was the Secretary of State.
The assailant "...sprang upon the defenseless secretary in the
bed. The knife... [ripped] Seward's right cheek, the right side
of his throat, and [slashed] deeply under the left ear. So much
blood spurted, it seemed his throat must have been cut."
As the city grew hysterical over the news of the assassination
attempts, rumors of all sorts spread. Amidst all the uproar,
Booth "galloped toward the Navy Yard Bridge which crossed the
Eastern Branch of the Potomac. The further shore was Maryland.
Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic were to the east. Richmond was
100 miles south.
Shortly after Lincoln was shot, L.A. Gobright, an Associated
Press representative in Washington, put a short bulletin out over
the commercial telegraph saying that the President had been shot.
"The AP man filed a second telegram... The morning edition of the
*New York Tribune* read, 'Our Washington agent orders the
dispatch about the president stopped. Nothing is said about the
truth or falsity of that dispatch.'"
"Before details of the night of terror could be flashed from
Washington to morning newspapers, the commercial telegraph went
dead... Within 15 minutes after the murder, the wires were
severed entirely around the city, excepting only a secret wire
for government use..."
The authors state that this destruction of telegraph service
could only have been accomplished by someone who was an expert
about the telegraph. "Only someone familiar with telegraphy,
working inside the main terminal area, could have so effectively
sabotaged the news wire."
After having been shot, the dying Lincoln had been taken across
the street to a boardinghouse owned by William Peterson. In the
back parlor of the house, Secretary of War [B.R. They now call
this cabinet post the Secretary of "Defense"] Stanton set up a
temporary seat of government. "Here, virtually a dictator,
Stanton took control of the situation and the nation."
Stanton began issuing orders to close escape routes out of the
city. Eventually, the only road not closed by Stanton was the
road leading south from Washington to Port Tobacco. "Booth's act
had caused a virtual blockade of the whole Atlantic coast from
Baltimore to Hampton Roads, Virginia, yet the assassin slipped
through because the closings had been piecemeal, beginning in the
least likely direction and moving slowly toward the route Booth
was most likely to have taken."
"In all wires issued from the War Department during the night of
April 14, this route [south from Washington to Port Tobacco] was
not once mentioned...[Yet] it was the one obvious route that
should have been instantly and tightly closed."
In the back parlor of the Peterson house, statements by witnesses
to the shooting were taken. James Tanner, a Union corporal who
knew shorthand, recorded these statements. In Tanner's words,
"Within fifteen minutes, I had testimony enough to hang Wilkes
Booth." Yet Stanton sent no messages to the newspapers or
to the military leaders identifying Booth as the assassin.
By this time, Booth was well south of Washington and headed east
toward Benedict's Landing where a ship of British registry,
flying Canadian colors, was waiting for two "crewmen." A second
ship of British registry, also flying the Canadian flag, was
waiting at Port Tobacco.
For Rebel turncoat Captain James William Boyd, the murder of
Lincoln was not good news. "Booth's shot wrecked his plan to
kidnap Lincoln on behalf of the Northern speculators. If his name
became involved in the Booth plot, Boyd was in great danger."
Boyd decided to flee. He packed his gear and headed for Maryland.
"About 6 a.m. Saturday morning, White House guard John Parker,
who had vacated his post and allowed the President to be shot,
showed up at the Washington police station with Lizzie Williams,
a drunken streetwalker, in custody. She was released by the
precinct captain."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Bishop, Jim, *The Day Lincoln Was Shot* (Harper & Brothers, }
{ New York, 1955) }
{ }
{ Dewitt, David M., *The Assassination of Lincoln and Its }
{ Expiation* (MacMillan Co., New York, 1909) }
{ }
{ Eisenschiml, Otto, *Why Was Lincoln Murdered?* (Little, }
{ Brown, and Co., Boston, 1937) }
{ }
{ Eisenschiml, Otto, *In the Shadow of Lincoln's Death* }
{ (Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1940) }
{ }
{ Existing Pages of the John Wilkes Booth Diary on display at }
{ Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C. }
{ }
{ Ferguson, W.J., *I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln* (Houghton }
{ Mifflin, Boston, 1930) }
{ }
{ Gerry, Margarita Spalding, *Through Five Administrations: }
{ Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook* (Harper and }
{ Brothers, New York, 1907) }
{ }
{ Roscoe, Theodore, *The Web of Conspiracy* (Prentice-Hall, }
{ Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1959) }
{ }
{ Shelton, Vaughan, *Mask for Treason: The Lincoln Murder }
{ Trial* (Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1965) }
{ }
{ Unpublished Voluntary Statement of Michael O'Laughlin, April }
{ 27, 1865, originally in the Benn Pittman Collection, }
{ Cincinnati, OH Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ Weichmann, Louis J., *A True History of the Assassination of }
{ Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865*, ed. Floyd }
{ E. Risvold, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975) }
[...to be continued...]
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[From The Congressional Record -- House, H894, Jan. 31, 1995]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 1995, the
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant] is recognized during morning
business for 5 minutes.
MR. TRAFICANT:
Mr. Speaker, I agree 1,000 percent with the former speaker, the
gentleman from eastern Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] and share in that
message. Where the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] says
that Congress cannot control the policy within Mexico, nor for
that matter any other foreign government. I wholeheartedly agree.
But what bothers me today is Congress can control the policy of
the United States of America and that is why we were in fact
elected. We were not elected as a Member of the British
Parliament or the Israeli Knesset or the Japanese Diet. We are in
fact Members of Congress.
An issue I want to talk about today is a bill that I have
sponsored, H.R. 390, that is a very straightforward bill that
deals with the IRS [Internal Revenue Service]. I believe an
agency of our Federal Government that the U.S. Congress has not
only failed to control but has allowed to proceed without
oversight in establishing not only policy which is clearly within
the province of the United States of America, but rules and
regulations that in fact impound and impact upon that policy and
everybody seems to just be silent. Nobody wants the IRS on your
back.
I am not going to go into the whole litany of Watergate, but if
there was a real downside to Watergate, it was not that snooping.
That happens all the time. The Nixon people happened to get
caught. What bothered me, though, is reading the White House
transcripts on the targeting of enemies of the White House, where
the President is quoted in White House transcripts as saying,
"That Congressman is on my back and I've had it. You get the FBI
and you get the IRS out there and you get this guy out of the
way."
We know that that goes on. We believe that it is relatively
small. Most IRS agents are regular Americans like we are and they
try and do a good job.
But there is a fundamental problem here. In their zeal, there are
some overzealous agents. There have been Americans that have been
ripped off and Congress continues to be silent.
The Traficant bill is right to the point. In certain civil
proceedings, the only agency of the Federal Government that can
waive the Constitution and its Bill of Rights is the Internal
Revenue Service, because in certain civil proceedings in courts
of law, the burden of proof is on the taxpayer to prove they are
not guilty and they are in fact innocent. That is unheard of. How
did this thing evolve?
Just on a matter of fairness, if there were not cases that speak
to this dilemma that we face, how could this have evolved,
Congress?
Where are rules and regulations being promulgated behind closed
doors by bureaucrats without congressional oversight able to
basically change the basic tenet of our Constitution?
I want to give my colleagues one example, David and Millie Evans
of Colorado. IRS said you owe us $40,000. We are going to lien
your property unless you pay. David and Millie Evans said we do
not believe we owe that money. About a month later the IRS called
back and said we made a mistake; it is $100,000.
The Evanses got together at the IRS, they came to a settlement
agreement, $22,000, and the Evanses wrote the check for $22,000.
Another group in the IRS said we did not receive the check. It is
a moot point. We want the $100,000.
The case went to court. They lost their business, their home was
liened. They spent a ton of money on attorneys, and finally a
court said the Evanses are in fact innocent.
The IRS appealed the case by saying the judge wrongfully
instructed the jury. He told the jury that the burden of proof in
this case was on the IRS to prove their case, but under this
proceeding the burden of proof is not. The IRS said the burden of
proof is on the Evanses and the case should be overturned and
vacated, and it was.
The Traficant bill was not getting looked at too much because
most Members want to say, "I can't believe the IRS has that
power; come on now."
That was a court case. We have documented cases of suicide, we
have documented cases of Americans that are simply told, "Prove
it."
I think it is very simple, ladies and gentlemen, if the IRS has a
case and IRS has money coming, taxpayers of America want the
Internal Revenue Service to collect that money. But I think we
have created an agency that is a little bit out of control and
too much for those people, including Red Skelton, who said we
have a gestapo unit in Washington known as the Internal Revenue
Service. I think Red Skelton an awful long time ago was trying to
tell Congress about something that was building in our country.
Finally, Mr. Speaker, average Americans are frustrated with our
Government. Many cannot articulate it, but one thing they know
for sure, they know that the Internal Revenue Service has gone
beyond the control of Congress. I hear many Members that say,
"Look, Jim. I don't want to get involved in that case."
Well, your taxpayers are. Congress should be.
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
There's plenty the popular press is not telling us about the
bailout of Mexico. For example: the horrendous conflict of
interest involving Maurice Greenberg, the chairman of the Federal
Reserve district bank in New York, who's also the chairman of the
American International Group, a tremendous company with interests
in Mexico.
UNKNOWN INTERVIEWEE:
At this point in time, we are being told by the Federal
Reserve that, "We need to go down and bail out Mexico."
Well guess what? *In* Mexico, American International Group
has a tremendous financial interest! They have invested
millions and millions of dollars there. How would *you* like
to be the chairman of the New York Federal Reserve district,
and not have any risk whatsoever, because you knew that if
something did happen to your investment, you could play a
key, integral role in bailing yourself and your corporation
out!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, true. I understand. And the New York "Fed" is very
instrumental in the Mexico thing.
UNKNOWN INTERVIEWEE:
The "Fed", the New York branch of the "Fed", is *the* most
powerful group.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
(This is another interview with Pat Riatt(sp?), financial
researcher and publisher.) [CN -- As far as I can determine,
the following interviewee, Mr. Riatt, is not the same person
as the "unknown interviewee", above.]
PAT RIATT:
There's very, very little truth being said about the Mexican
situation. The real reasons that, we're being told, are
completely different than the phony reasons that we're being
given.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Such as what?
PAT RIATT:
Well, who are the parties that stand to gain from the
bailout? One of the things I can tell you -- and most people
don't have to be brain surgeons to understand -- is that the
Mexican people are not going to benefit from this bailout.
They're talking about a guarantee of $40 billion. They're
talking about a guarantee of $40 billion being leveraged
[with] Mexican oil going to pay for this. Well Mexican oil,
through their nationalized company, petroleum company, called
PEMEX, has already been mortgaged! This would be, like, the
30th mortgage on that, as a security! So if we're going to
get this $40 billion, we're going to be 30th in line. And how
much money do you think we're going to get when we're 30th in
line?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Probably not very much.
PAT RIATT:
No.
The people that are profiteering are the big banks, on Wall
Street (as you are hearing in the press). There are also
other large corporations, like U.S. Trust Company, which is
headed by Robert Day(sp?). He was down there; he used his
influence with Henry Kissinger -- Ya gotta remember: Henry
Kissinger is a *major* player in this entire scenario. He was
writing long columns, on and on and on, espousing the virtue
of the Mexican government. He claimed that he knew of no more
competent government in the world, to pass NAFTA! He pushed
NAFTA through, never telling anyone out there -- *anyone* --
that he had a major stake, at Kissinger Associates, his
consulting firm, and had *numerous* clients, where he was
profiteering from the very fact that NAFTA would be passed.
And there's no reason at all that public pension funds, for
instance, should have been investing in these type of
markets.
However, I can tell you that, as of a conversation that we
had with the director of the state of Wisconsin investment
board, just yesterday, whose name is Patricia Lippman(?),
that this particular investment board, which heads up a $35
billion investment portfolio, has lost *tens* of millions of
public pension money *down* *in* *Mexico*.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Also, a number of pension funds like that have lost a great
deal of money in derivatives.
PAT RIATT:
We have a situation in this country where we're not being
told the truth, and the American taxpayers are having to bail
out people that gave us false information and did not do due
diligence when they did the NAFTA.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, the NAFTA, of course, also involves Canada. And there
are some astute observers that believe that Canada, like
Mexico, is bankrupt. And that the united States is in the
middle [of] sort of a "bankrupt sandwich". [laughs]
PAT RIATT:
Well we're a triple-decker, in that case, because we're
bankrupt as well!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Another story, suppressed by the liars and whores of the press.
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "The Colossal Scandal in the Clinton White House".
(312) 731-1505.
New message Friday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
[...continued...]
Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada rushed to the Kirkwood House
and found the vice-President "...in a drunken stupor. His
clothing was disarrayed. Mud matted his hair." After being made
presentable by a barber and sobered up by a physician, Andrew
Johnson was sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.
In his inauguration "speech," Johnson declared that "The course
which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion
must be regarded as a guarantee for the future." This meant that
Lincoln's proposed policy of amnesty for the South was finished.
Johnson would give his support to those planning to treat the
defeated Confederacy as conquered enemy territory.
"Radical Republicans were delighted. Everything that Lincoln had
fought for could be presumed dead along with the late President."
Some of them even went so far as to declare that "Lincoln's death
is like a blessing from heaven."
After having his broken leg tended to by Dr. Samuel Mudd (who
apparently had no idea whose leg he was treating nor that Lincoln
had just been assassinated), Booth and a companion (a former
smuggler named Ed Henson whom Booth had joined up with early in
his flight from Washington) disappeared into the nearby Zekiah
Swamp. After about three hours of trudging through this desolate
wilderness, they approached a farm owned by Col. Samuel Cox. Cox
hid the fugitives in a pine thicket about two miles from his
house and sent for his foster brother, Thomas A. Jones. During
the just finished Civil War, Jones had "...nightly rowed the two
mile crossing of the Potomac to, or from, Virginia with persons
who wanted to cross the river unnoticed." Jones promised Booth
and Henson that he would get them across the river as soon as
possible.
Back in Washington, Stanton assigned NDP chief Lafayette Baker to
get Booth. Booth's rash act had thrown the carefully laid plans
of those higher up in the hierarchy of power "...into a cocked
hat." Stanton feared that unless the pursuit and capture of Booth
was brought to a speedy finish, that his and his colleagues'
kidnap plots would be incidentally exposed by the ongoing
investigations.
Booth's shooting of Lincoln had come as such a surprise to
Stanton and his friends that they were terrified that their own
plots would be uncovered. NDP chief Baker knew that his boss
[Stanton] preferred that Booth not be taken alive. If Booth were
to live long enough to talk, there was a good possibility that he
would implicate those higher up in the conspiracies surrounding
Lincoln.
Baker's NDP found Booth acquaintance David Herold "Drunk under a
tree." Baker persuaded Herold to serve as a guide for his
detectives. If Herold would lead them to Booth, Baker promised
that he would overlook Herold's early involvement with Booth in
what had started out as a kidnap plot; if Herold would lead them
to Booth, Herold would not be hung. Herold agreed to help them
locate Booth.
The agencies gathering evidence in the hunt for those guilty in
the assassination of Lincoln were overly zealous. One early
witness, John Lloyd, an alcoholic, "...was denied all liquor for
48 hours. In addition, he was hanged from a tree by his thumbs
for those 48 hours." Another early detainee, Louis Weichmann, was
"...given a choice of hanging as a conspirator or testifying
against those accused."
In southern Maryland, David Herold and two NDP detectives headed
for the farm of a Col. Frank Beale. It had been reported that
Boyd, the double agent, might be hiding there. The reports proved
correct, and Boyd was taken in tow by the search party. Neither
Boyd nor Herold felt any loyalty towards the NDP and the Union,
and both planned to escape from the NDP detectives at the first
opportunity. When the search party neared Port Tobacco, at night
while the detectives were sleeping, Boyd and Herold made their
escape. They were able to steal three pistols, a Spencer carbine,
and three fully loaded magazine pouches before escaping.
Shortly thereafter, both pairs of fugitives, Booth and Henson and
Boyd and Herold, "...were within a short distance of each other
near Port Tobacco." Both pairs of fugitives planned to cross the
Potomac river to escape pursuit.
"Boyd and Herold went to a Colonel Hughes' place... arriving
about daybreak on April 19. They were heading for a place west of
Mathias Point to cross the river. Boyd's right leg was festering
and so sore that he was reduced to using a crude crutch."
On the night of Friday, April 21, Booth and Henson were able to
get across the Potomac river. Boyd and Herold had already crossed
the Potomac the day before. Sometime Saturday night, Booth and
Henson had arrived at Gambo Creek but then had hurriedly moved
on, headed for a crossing at Port Conway. In their haste, they
left behind Booth's coat, his diary and other items. Booth and
Henson as well as Boyd and Herold, in separate pairs, each
reached Port Conway on Monday, April 24.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, about 2,000 people had been
arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Lincoln assassination
conspiracy. Among the "wanted" posters being issued by Secretary
of War Stanton and the NDP, one carried a picture of David Herold
that had been taken while he was in preliminary custody after the
assassination (i.e. when he had cut the deal with NDP chief Baker
to help them capture Booth). In fact, the "...Herold photo had
his handcuffed hands cropped off so the public wouldn't know that
he had [actually already] been arrested earlier. The Herold frame-
up was under way."
During the frantic and chaotic search for whoever was proclaimed
to be the guilty parties, several innocent people were killed by
overzealous detectives. "In the throngs of trigger-happy
hunters... it was the detectives and military men, immune from
prosecution, who did the killing....[For example] two civilians
named Frank Boyle and William Watson were shot 'because they
resembled Booth.' The secret police even disposed of the two
bodies."
On Friday, April 21, a Lt. Lovett and a squad of cavalry returned
to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd. After questioning him further,
they rode off. However, "On Monday, April 24, an officer with
three soldiers took Dr. Mudd to Washington. He would not return
home for many years to come." [B.R. Dr. Mudd was another victim
of the hysteria surrounding the assassination of Lincoln. To my
knowledge, he has either recently, finally, been granted a full
pardon (posthumously, of course) by the Federal government, or
there is currently a great deal of pressure that he *should* be
granted such a pardon.]
The pursuing Federal investigators had engaged the services of a
Native American (a.k.a. "Indian") scout in their hunt for Booth.
On Sunday, April 23rd, this Native American scout, Nalgai,
returned to Washington. He carried with him two brandy bottles,
"...an ulsterette with bloodstains, a pistol, a compass, a wallet
containing $2,100 in Union currency, several letters of credit on
Canadian and British banks, and pictures of six pretty young
women and a horse." He also brought back Booth's diary.
At first, detectives Andrew and James Potter were quite happy to
have recovered Booth's diary. However their happiness turned to
dismay when they began reading Booth's documentation regarding
his meetings with certain powerful and well-known individuals.
Among the personages mentioned by Booth were financier Jay Cooke,
his brother Henry Cooke, political boss Thurlow Weed, and NDP
chief Lafayette Baker. Booth had also written about his meetings
with "...Jefferson Davis, Judah Benjamin, Montgomery
Blair,...'The Secretary,'...[and] Senator Wade."
According to a diary kept by Representative George Julian of
Indiana, he was present at a meeting which took place at the War
Department on Monday, April 24, 1865. Present at this meeting,
according to Rep. Julian's diary, were a Major Eckert of the War
Department, Secretary of War Stanton, Senator Zachariah Chandler
of Michigan, and Senator John Conness. Also "present" at the
meeting was Booth's recently recovered diary.
The subject of discussion was the potentially disastrous effect
that the publication of the information in Booth's diary would
have and the need to keep that information top secret. To give an
idea of the potentially explosive effect the dissemination of the
information in Booth's diary would have had, the authors quote
excerpts from the so-called Missing Booth Diary Pages (i.e. the
18 missing pages released under the Freedom of Information Act
during the mid-70's):
Excerpts from the Missing Booth Diary Pages:
*** "With Jay Cooke at the Astor Hotel, I met Thurlow Weed, Sen.
Chandler, and a Mr. Bell who said he was a friend of John
Conness... the speculators in cotton and gold would do anything
-- including murder -- to make the amount of money they have..."
*** "...[Senator John] Conness said he would supply the new
passwords every six weeks..."
*** "...Thompson gave me $50,000 in bank notes with instructions
to take $15,000 to Sen. Conness... and to leave in a sealed
envelope $20,000 in notes at the home of Sen. Wade..."
*** "...[NDP Chief Lafayette] Baker comes and brings with him
Col. Conger. I told Baker to have him leave because I did not
know him, and talking to too many people can be dangerous..."
*** "...no matter who speaks for [NDP Chief Lafayette] Baker, I
do not like him and will not trust him... I believe that Baker
and Eckert and the Secretary are in control of our activities...
and this frightens me..."
According to Rep. Julian's diary, those present at the meeting
(except for Rep. Julian himself) feared for their lives if the
information in Booth's diary ever got out. Rep. Julian had
favored the overthrow of Lincoln by Constitutional means. In his
diary, Julian wrote, "It was disgusting to see those men grovel
in fear because of their immoral activities." He further quotes
Stanton as saying, "...we either stick together in this thing or
we all hang together."
Indiana Representative George Julian also noted in his diary that
the question arose as to what would happen if Booth were captured
alive. Keeping the diary a secret was one thing, but how would
they keep Booth from telling what he knew? According to Rep.
Julian's diary, Stanton declared that Booth would not be tried in
open court.
Stanton then ordered that the Booth diary be put in his safe and
that under no circumstances was it to be released to anyone.
Because NDP Chief Lafayette Baker did not trust Stanton, he
organized a special unit with its purpose being to capture Booth
alive at all costs. Apparently, Baker feared that Stanton might
release selected portions of Booth's diary which implicated Baker
whilst secreting other portions which implicated Stanton himself.
The authors do not directly say this, but apparently Baker
planned to use Booth as a bargaining chip in case Stanton were to
turn on him.
Scattered forces were converging on Port Conway. "If John Wilkes
Booth lived to tell his story, the nation's biggest scandal would
wash over Washington like garbage scattered by a tornado."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Andrew Potter Papers, Ray A. Neff Collection, Marshall, IL }
{ }
{ Bearden Papers. Margaret K. Bearden Collection }
{ }
{ Capt. James William Boyd Letter to Moe Stevens, Boyd Papers. }
{ Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ Col. Lafayette Baker's Letter to Edwin M. Stanton, May 5, }
{ 1865. In the private collection of Stanton descendants. }
{ Released in 1976 through the efforts of Americana }
{ appraiser, Joseph Lynch }
{ }
{ Existing Pages of the John Wilkes Booth Diary on display at }
{ Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, Washington, D.C. }
{ }
{ Jones, Thomas A., "J. Wilkes Booth: An Account of His Sojourn }
{ in Southern Maryland After the Assassination of Abraham }
{ Lincoln," *The Amateur Book Collector*, Sept. 1954 }
{ }
{ Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve and Kunhardt, Philip B., *Twenty }
{ Days* (Harper & Row, New York, 1965) }
{ }
{ Missing Booth Diary Pages. In the private collection of }
{ Stanton descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts }
{ of Americana appraiser, Joseph Lynch of Worthington, MA }
{ }
{ Mudd, Nettie, *The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd (Neale }
{ Publishing Co., New York, 1906) }
{ }
{ Rep. George Julian Diary, April 1865. Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ Roscoe, Theodore, *The Web of Conspiracy* (Prentice-Hall, }
{ Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1959) }
{ }
{ Shelton, Vaughan, *Mask for Treason: The Lincoln Murder }
{ Trial* (Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1965) }
{ }
{ Unpublished Voluntary Statement of Dandridge Mercer Green, }
{ April 30, 1865, National Archives, Ray A. Neff Collection }
{ }
{ Weichmann, Louis J., *A True History of the Assassination of }
{ Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865*, ed. Floyd }
{ E. Risvold, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975) }
[...to be continued...]
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[From The Congressional Record -- House, H957, Jan. 31, 1995]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:
Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Tennessee
[Mr. Duncan] is recognized for 5 minutes.
(Mr. Duncan asked and was given permission to revise and extend
his remarks.)
MR. DUNCAN:
Mr. Speaker, one of the most wasteful, inefficient agencies in
the entire Federal Government is the Food and Drug
Administration [FDA].
In their bureaucratic and arrogant way, they have held medicines
and medical devices off the U.S. market, sometimes for years, to
the detriment of the health of American citizens.
By their rules, regulations, and red tape, they have driven up
the price of drugs and have helped the big drug giants by making
it extremely difficult or almost impossible for small businesses
to compete in the field.
Now, however, they want to do something which should outrage
every taxpayer in the Nation.
At a time when we are supposed to be downsizing the Federal
Government, the FDA wants to build a Taj Mahal complex of
buildings in Maryland for a new headquarters.
Part of this project is to be in Montgomery County and part in
Prince Georges County.
However, the important point is not the location. It is the cost.
The original cost estimate for these buildings was almost $1
billion dollars.
However, because the FDA has become concerned about the
appearance of this exorbitant and excessive spending at a time
when most people want frugality in Government, they have lowered
their estimated cost, all the way down to $875 million.
Even if this project comes in on budget, which I seriously doubt,
it would still be at a cost of a whopping $257 a square foot.
State governments are building beautiful buildings for half this
cost.
And is the FDA doing everything possible to hold down costs?
Well, since the money is not coming out of their own pockets,
they chose the most expensive site they looked at and some of the
most expensive land in this Nation.
The original cost estimate for the Prince Georges facility was
$290 a square foot.
The Montgomery County complex is to be several buildings
interconnected, in a college campus-like setting, on a 530-acre
tract of land -- 530 acres when they could build a beautiful
headquarters on an acre or less.
The fact is, Mr. Speaker, the FDA should be greatly reformed. It
should be greatly downsized. It should stay where it is now.
Perhaps the most phenomenal thing of all is the size of this
project -- 3.4 million square feet -- to house only 6,500
employees. This comes out to approximately 750 square feet per
employee.
Most Members of Congress have approximately 1,000 square feet to
house 9 or 10 employees, or about one-seventh of what the FDA
wants.
Moreover, FDA's current offices and laboratories occupy 2.1
million square feet of office space.
The new FDA complex will be 3.4 million square feet in size. This
is one million, three hundred thousand square feet more than what
they have now -- a 60 percent increase -- at a time when the
Federal Government is supposed to be downsizing.
With a national debt of more than $4.7 trillion, we should not be
spending almost $1 billion to build plush new quarters for FDA
bureaucrats.
The bureaucrats want to live like kings while taxpayers foot the
bill.
I am pleased that today, the Citizens for a Sound Economy came
out strongly against this project.
I know we have a Government that is of, by, and for the
bureaucrats instead of one that is of, by, and for the people,
but, Mr. Speaker, this is one I hope we can win for the
taxpayers.
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[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1031, Feb. 1, 1995]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE (Mr. Hastings of Washington):
Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from Ohio
[Ms. Kaptur] is recognized for 5 minutes.
MS. KAPTUR:
Mr. Speaker, I want to compliment the previous speaker, the
gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter], who has been so much a
part of our efforts to really open up international trade and
explain the consequences to people in this country and abroad.
I rise tonight with a rather heavy heart because of the action of
the Clinton administration. Our Government is not a monarchy. We
are a nation of laws and of balance of powers between this
legislative branch, which is the first branch that the
Constitution mentions, and the action, in my opinion, by the
Clinton administration in extending over $47 billion worth of
credit from the taxpayers of this country is outside the
Constitutional boundaries of the executive branch.
Now, Wall Street today and their irresponsible money men are
cheering, because they have essentially been bailed out along
with their 24 billionaire friends in Mexico with this gift
package from the taxpayers of the United States of America with
no vote by Members of this Congress. Wall Street investors have
every reason to be happy. They got their money back from you, the
taxpayers, but the American people should know that they are at
risk, because this deal is backed up by worthless paper
certificates of oil serving as collateral.
Now, why do I say this? Does not oil have value? Under normal
circumstances, it would. But the Mexican Government has long used
its oil over and over, the same oil again, as collateral for
debts they already owe.
Did you know that Mexico has already pledged its oil in the
European bond market, the Euro-bond market, for upwards of $10
billion? The fact is, Mexican oil no longer has any value for use
as collateral on new debt, because it is pledged to old debt, and
Mexico owes anywhere between, on the public debt it owes, between
$160 billion and $200 billion.
It would be almost better for Mexico to pledge jumping beans
rather than to repledge their oil again.
In the *Record* tonight, I have taken out of Moody's Manual a
list of where Mexico's monopoly-owned, state-owned oil company,
Pemex, has already pledged the assets of their oil company.
Suffice it to say, all the administration accomplished by
conditioning new loans, these $47 billion worth of loans from our
taxpayers, on Mexican oil, was to put our taxpayers at the end of
a very long line of creditors to that oil. Even adding up all the
assets and production of Pemex, Mexico does not have enough oil
revenue to cover the $47.5 billion worth of new loans.
In fact, the *Houston Chronicle* reports that Mexico will become
a net oil importer by the turn of the century, because it is
essentially producing half of the oil it produced a decade ago
because of problems inside that oil company.
Now, add to that what Mexico's own officials have said. The
Mexican Secretary of the Treasury said, "Our oil resources are
not going to be used for guarantees." Well, if they are not, what
is backing up the risk to the taxpayers of this country?
And Mexico's Energy Minister was quoted recently, and a direct
quote again, "Our oil will not be mortgaged nor will it form any
part of any loan guarantee."
Now, maybe the United States Ambassador to Mexico cannot read
Spanish, but it is all there in the Mexican newspapers to be read
by anyone.
Basically, my friends, by dodging Congress, our people have been
sold a bill of goods that have no value, by the administration in
collaboration with the Government of Mexico. Now our
administration is scrambling to make this back-door deal look as
legitimate as possible. But the fact remains the so-called
collateral that Mexico is putting up for the $47.5 billion in
loans is worthless and, in fact, experts have estimated the
entire worth of Pemex at somewhere perhaps, if we are lucky,
about $24 billion.
So ask yourself when you read the fine print and they say they
are going to book sales of oil on the Federal Reserve of New
York's books, who is cooking the books? We are not getting
barrels of oil. We are getting pledges of collateral that has
already been overpledged.
And if you really want to get cynical, and I will end with this
statement, is it not interesting that this is not the first time
this has happened? But in fact it happened right after the
[Mexican] Presidential election of 1988, during that period when
they were trying to prop up the value of the Mexican peso. It
happened in 1982, and now they devalued the peso right after the
Mexican election in 1994.
Let the record speak for itself.
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[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1031, Feb. 1, 1995]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE (Mr. Hastings of Washington):
Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from Ohio
[Ms. Kaptur] is recognized for 5 minutes.
MS. KAPTUR:
Mr. Speaker, I want to compliment the previous speaker, the
gentleman from California [Mr. Hunter], who has been so much a
part of our efforts to really open up international trade and
explain the consequences to people in this country and abroad.
I rise tonight with a rather heavy heart because of the action of
the Clinton administration. Our Government is not a monarchy. We
are a nation of laws and of balance of powers between this
legislative branch, which is the first branch that the
Constitution mentions, and the action, in my opinion, by the
Clinton administration in extending over $47 billion worth of
credit from the taxpayers of this country is outside the
Constitutional boundaries of the executive branch.
Now, Wall Street today and their irresponsible money men are
cheering, because they have essentially been bailed out along
with their 24 billionaire friends in Mexico with this gift
package from the taxpayers of the United States of America with
no vote by Members of this Congress. Wall Street investors have
every reason to be happy. They got their money back from you, the
taxpayers, but the American people should know that they are at
risk, because this deal is backed up by worthless paper
certificates of oil serving as collateral.
Now, why do I say this? Does not oil have value? Under normal
circumstances, it would. But the Mexican Government has long used
its oil over and over, the same oil again, as collateral for
debts they already owe.
Did you know that Mexico has already pledged its oil in the
European bond market, the Euro-bond market, for upwards of $10
billion? The fact is, Mexican oil no longer has any value for use
as collateral on new debt, because it is pledged to old debt, and
Mexico owes anywhere between, on the public debt it owes, between
$160 billion and $200 billion.
It would be almost better for Mexico to pledge jumping beans
rather than to repledge their oil again.
In the *Record* tonight, I have taken out of Moody's Manual a
list of where Mexico's monopoly-owned, state-owned oil company,
Pemex, has already pledged the assets of their oil company.
Suffice it to say, all the administration accomplished by
conditioning new loans, these $47 billion worth of loans from our
taxpayers, on Mexican oil, was to put our taxpayers at the end of
a very long line of creditors to that oil. Even adding up all the
assets and production of Pemex, Mexico does not have enough oil
revenue to cover the $47.5 billion worth of new loans.
In fact, the *Houston Chronicle* reports that Mexico will become
a net oil importer by the turn of the century, because it is
essentially producing half of the oil it produced a decade ago
because of problems inside that oil company.
Now, add to that what Mexico's own officials have said. The
Mexican Secretary of the Treasury said, "Our oil resources are
not going to be used for guarantees." Well, if they are not, what
is backing up the risk to the taxpayers of this country?
And Mexico's Energy Minister was quoted recently, and a direct
quote again, "Our oil will not be mortgaged nor will it form any
part of any loan guarantee."
Now, maybe the United States Ambassador to Mexico cannot read
Spanish, but it is all there in the Mexican newspapers to be read
by anyone.
Basically, my friends, by dodging Congress, our people have been
sold a bill of goods that have no value, by the administration in
collaboration with the Government of Mexico. Now our
administration is scrambling to make this back-door deal look as
legitimate as possible. But the fact remains the so-called
collateral that Mexico is putting up for the $47.5 billion in
loans is worthless and, in fact, experts have estimated the
entire worth of Pemex at somewhere perhaps, if we are lucky,
about $24 billion.
So ask yourself when you read the fine print and they say they
are going to book sales of oil on the Federal Reserve of New
York's books, who is cooking the books? We are not getting
barrels of oil. We are getting pledges of collateral that has
already been overpledged.
And if you really want to get cynical, and I will end with this
statement, is it not interesting that this is not the first time
this has happened? But in fact it happened right after the
[Mexican] Presidential election of 1988, during that period when
they were trying to prop up the value of the Mexican peso. It
happened in 1982, and now they devalued the peso right after the
Mexican election in 1994.
Let the record speak for itself.
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
[...continued...]
"On Thursday, April 20, Dandridge Mercer Green stopped sawing a
piece of timber to stare at two men coming toward him. One was a
stranger, the other Green recognized as James William Boyd,
hobbling along on a crutch." Boyd arranged with Green for him and
his companion to be hidden at Green's farm. Boyd and Herold, his
companion, stayed hidden at Green's farm until Sunday, April 23,
when they were able to hire a wagon driven by one Charlie Lucas.
They had the driver take them south toward Port Conway.
Charlie Lucas's father, Willie Lucas, had driven the same wagon
in the same direction earlier that day. What is more, his father
had also carried two men, one of whom also had a hurt leg and
walked with a crutch.
>From Port Conway, Boyd and Herold crossed the Rappahannock to
Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia. They continued south to
a farm owned by a Mr. Garrett. There, they were met by Mr.
Garrett, whose religion required that he welcome strangers.
Garrett welcomed Boyd and Herold into his home.
"Luther and Andrew Potter's NDP search party reached Culpeper
Court House late that afternoon. They asked about a man with a
crutch... and soon picked up the trail." However, unbeknownst to
them, they had picked up the trail of Boyd and Herold. "Booth and
Henson... moved toward Fredericksburg, well behind the
detectives, who had overrun their quarry."
According to Captain Boyd's Papers, in the Ray A. Neff
Collection, Boyd had a tattoo on his hand that read, "J.W.B."
[B.R. The authors keep throwing in these cryptic statements and
then abandoning them. As I noted before, the style of the book
involves a lot of loose threads that one hopes will eventually
unite.]
Boyd and Herold stayed the night of Monday, April 24, at
Garrett's farm. The next day, Boyd and Herold became panicy when
a troop of Union cavalry thundered past the farm. The suspicions
of Garrett's son, Jack, became aroused and he asked that Boyd and
Herold leave. A compromise was worked out and Boyd and Herold
moved themselves to Garrett's barn.
However, Jack Garrett was still suspicious of the two men.
Fearing that they might try to steal horses from the barn, Jack
Garrett locked them in the barn that night (Tuesday, April 25).
Meanwhile, the troop of cavalry that had frightened Boyd and
Herold arrived in Bowling Green at about midnight. They
interrogated one Willie Jett who they knew had helped to ferry a
man with a hurt leg across the river earlier that day. They went
so far as to threaten to kill Jett unless he told them where the
man was. Jett told them that the man they sought was probably
hiding at the Garrett farm.
The troop of cavalry doubled back and arrived at the Garrett farm
at about 4 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26, 1865. They surrounded the
house and commanded the occupants to come out. When Garrett and
his family complied, they were roughly questioned until they
divulged that Boyd and Herold were still locked in the barn.
Among the federal troops were a Lt. Luther Baker and Lt. Colonel
Everton J. Conger, an aide to NDP chief Lafayette Baker.
Garrett's son Jack was ordered to unlock the barn and to tell the
men inside to come out. Garrett did as he was told, but Boyd
refused to come out. The authors cite a source which claims that
Boyd called out, "Who are you? What do you want? Who do you
want?" The authors assert that no answer was provided to Boyd's
questions. Conger yelled to the men inside that he was going to
set fire to the barn. At this point, David E. Herold agreed to
come out and was taken into custody.
Boyd was steadfast in his refusal to exit from the barn.
According to the authors, Conger went around the side of the barn
and set fire to it. "It caught instantly. He saw the man inside
swing up his rifle toward the flames."
"Conger glanced around. Nobody could see him. He reached for his
revolver and took careful aim. Suddenly the loud crack of a
pistol from the other side of the barn was heard. The man inside
the barn fell forward. [Lt. Luther] Baker rushed in, followed by
young Garrett, and grabbed the prostrate man."
"Conger, Garrett, and Baker dragged Boyd's body away from the
burning barn, across the farm lane, and onto the grass under a
stand of locust trees."
While Boyd lay dying under a stand of locust trees near the
Garrett barn, the fiction that Boyd was really Booth was given
birth. Someone asked, "Who shot Booth?" A Sergeant Boston Corbett
declared that *he* had shot "Booth" through a crack in the barn.
The reason why Corbett would claim that he had shot Booth is
perhaps that he was demented. Corbett was an alcoholic who had
sworn off booze when he had "found God" sometime before the war.
His newfound beliefs were so powerful that in 1858 he had
castrated himself when he was tempted by two prostitutes. Thus,
one could say that Sergeant Boston Corbett was a bit "off." This
may explain why he declared that it was he who shot "Booth."
Conger rode away to the nearest telegraph station so that he
could get the news to Washington that "Booth" had been shot.
"Twenty minutes after Conger left the scene, Boyd was dead. His
body was wrapped in an old saddle blanket."
An old army ambulance was obtained and the body of "Booth" was
placed inside. The driver was ordered to drive the body to Belle
Plain. In Belle Plain, the body was loaded onto the *John S. Ide*
"...and placed under guard until the ship could build up a head
of steam for the trip upriver.
According to the Andrew Potter Papers, it was at this point that
it was discovered that the body was *not* that of John Wilkes
Booth. It was known that Booth had shaved off his mustache while
at Dr. Mudd's, yet the body thought to be that of Booth had a
"long shaggy mustache." What is more, Booth's mustache was black
whereas the mustache on this corpse was red. It became obvious
that the troops had mistaken *Boyd* and Herold for *Booth* and
Herold.
"In Washington that morning, Lafe Baker received a coded cipher
from Conger: 'Booth has been shot to death near Bowling Green.
Herold is a prisoner... Body follows. Conger.'"
"With Booth dead, the secret service [a.k.a. NDP] chief's part in
the Lincoln conspiracy could never come out. Booth couldn't talk.
Herold would keep his mouth shut on pain of death."
Shortly thereafter, Conger's telegram declaring that "Booth" had
been shot began to cause an uproar. The news had been leaked to
the press and the newspapers were spreading it throughout the
city: "John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Lincoln the night of
April 14 in Ford's Theatre, has been killed. His body is being
returned by steamer to Washington. Government authorities this
morning shot Booth while he was trying to escape from a farmer's
barn near Bowling Green."
But of course it was not Booth but Boyd who had been shot dead.
"Lt. Doherty, Luther Baker, and Lt. Col. Conger picked up
*Boyd's* trail and followed him to Garrett's farm. No one there
had ever seen Booth. Boyd was shot because they thought he was
Booth. [My emphasis, B.R.]" And, after the false news of Booth's
death had been spread far and wide, Baker found this out. The
problem was augmented by the fact that Herold was still alive,
knew Booth well, and was beginning to tell whoever would listen
that Booth had not been shot at Garrett's farm.
When Stanton learned of the situation, he ordered that Herold be
stopped from talking immediately. To accomplish this, he
commanded that Herold be isolated from the other prisoners.
According to the Andrew Potter Papers, after Stanton had given
things some thought he hit upon the idea of letting the country
continue to believe that it was Booth who had been shot dead at
Garrett's farm. "Booth will be forgotten if we continue to let
the nation believe he's dead. If we admit that we killed Boyd by
mistake, and continue the hunt for Booth, he might be captured
alive." And if Booth were captured alive, then he might tell all
that he knew.
On Thursday, April 27, Stanton received a telegram informing him
that the remains of "Booth" had been placed aboard the Union
ironclad *Montauk*. He was also told that the body of "Booth" was
decomposing rapidly.
Stanton immediately ordered that no persons were to be allowed
aboard the *Montauk* "...unless under the joint pass of the
Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy."
An Identification Commission was formed, headed by Stanton's
aide, Thomas Eckert. "The mock inquest would formally identify
Boyd's body as that of Booth."
"Witnesses summoned aboard the *Montauk* had one lack in common:
none knew Booth well. None of Booth's relatives or accused
conspirators were called, although most were in custody on the
adjacent [Union ironclad] *Saugus*."
"None of the witnesses were surprised that the face had a
mustache, since apparently none had been told that Booth had
shaved off his mustache at Dr. Mudd's [on April 16th]."
A summons was sent to a Dr. John Franklin May by the "inquest."
Because some time earlier Dr. May had treated a man calling
himself Booth for a neck tumor, he was ordered to come to the
*Montauk* to help identify the body.
Dr. May informed the "inquest" that he had treated someone
claiming to be Booth about 18 to 24 months previous. When Dr. May
first viewed the corpse, his immediate reaction was, "There's no
resemblance in that corpse to Booth, nor can I believe it to be
him." Sensing perhaps that this was the wrong thing to say, Dr.
May then asked if there was a scar on the back of the neck. Dr.
May then described what the scar would look like if it were
present. The Surgeon General, who was also in attendance,
immediately declared that Dr. May had described the scar as well
as if he were looking at it.
"In Dr. May's verbal and written statement, there is no mention
that he actually examined the scar for positive identification,
and the bullet, of course, had made a bloody mess of Boyd's
neck." Dr. May finally stated to the "inquest" that, "I am
enabled, imperfectly, to recognize the features of Booth."
When asked if he recognized the body as Booth's, Dr. May replied,
"I do recognize it, although it is very much altered since I saw
Booth. It seems much older and in appearance, much more freckled
than he was. I do not recollect that he was at all freckled."
"Booth was 28, famous for his ivory, perfect skin, free of
blemish. Boyd, on the other hand, was 43, with reddish-sandy hair
and a tendency to freckle."
In the official transcript of the proceedings, "The next half
dozen words of Dr. May's reply were carefully inked out... [and
new words] were added."
Dr. May was dismissed and returned home. He immediately penned a
statement in which he declared, "Never in a human being had a
greater change taken place from the man whom I had seen in the
vigor of life and health than that of the haggard corpse which
was before me... The *right* limb was greatly contused and
perfectly black from a fracture of one of the long bones of the
leg."
But Booth had snapped the *left* tibia, about two inches above
the ankle. "Dr. Mudd's formal statement on April 21, 1865 read,
'On examination, I found there was a straight fracture of the
tibia about two inches above the ankle.'"
Before the body was disposed of, a photographer named Alexander
Gardner was brought in and told to take only *one* picture. After
doing so, Gardner was escorted to a darkroom by a War Department
detective who had orders not to leave Gardner's side until the
plate was developed. When the plate was developed, the War
Department detective took possession of both the negative and the
positive. "It would be impossible for anyone else to duplicate
the picture."
NDP chief Lafayette Baker confiscated the picture and the plate.
"The government officially denied that any picture had been taken
of the corpse. But the Gardner photograph later ended up in the
personal possession of Secretary of War Stanton."
"Booth's" body, which was in reality Boyd's body, was placed in a
rowboat. Lafayette Baker and his cousin, Luther Baker, rowed out
to the old Arsenal Penitentiary. The body was carried to a
convict's cell in which, beneath a stone slab, a grave had been
dug. The corpse was lowered into the grave, the stone slab was
replaced, and Lafayette and Luther Baker got back in their
rowboat and departed. The Arsenal Prison became the sepulchre
"...for the mortal remains of the man who had become 'John Wilkes
Booth.'"
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Andrew Potter Papers. Ray A. Neff Collection, Marshall, IL }
{ }
{ Captain Boyd Papers. Ray A. Neff Collection. }
{ }
{ Colonel Lafayette C. Baker's memo-letter to Edwin Stanton, }
{ April, 1865. In the private collection of Stanton }
{ descendants. Released in 1976 through an interview with }
{ Americana appraiser, Joseph Lynch. }
{ }
{ Eisenschiml, Otto, *In the Shadow of Lincoln's Death* }
{ (Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1940) }
{ }
{ Luther Baker Speech delivered in 1932 at Lansing, Michigan. }
{ Richard D. Mudd Collection. }
{ }
{ Oldroyd, Osborn H., *The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: }
{ Flight, Pursuit, Capture and Punishment of the }
{ Conspirators* (Privately Published, Washington, D.C., 1901) }
{ }
{ Peterson, T.B., *The Trial of the Assassins and Conspirators* }
{ (T.B. Peterson and Brothers, Philadelphia, 1865) }
{ }
{ Pitman, Benn, *The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the }
{ Trial of the Conspirators* (Funk & Wagnalls, New York, }
{ 1954) }
{ }
{ Roscoe, Theodore, *The Web of Conspiracy*, (Prentice-Hall, }
{ Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1959) }
{ }
{ Unpublished Voluntary Statement of Dandridge Mercer Green, }
{ April 30, 1865, National Archives, Ray A. Neff Collection. }
{ }
{ Weichmann, Louis J., *A True History of the Assassination of }
{ Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865*, ed. Floyd }
{ E. Risvold, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975) }
{ }
{ The Wilhelmina Titus (grandaughter of Capt. James William }
{ Boyd) monograph. Ray A. Neff Collection. }
[...to be continued...]
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The Lincoln Conspiracy
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By David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
[...continued...]
In the Spring of 1865, the legality of military court martials
for civilians was a case then pending before the U.S. Supreme
Court. "It was apparent to Stanton and the other government
officials in the cover-up that they must rush the military trial
of the accused Booth conspirators before the high court ruled,
for the judges seemed certain... to declare military tribunals
illegal for civilians when civil courts were functioning [as they
then were]." It was fairly obvious that constitutional guarantees
of trial by jury would force such a ruling.
Accordingly, the government rushed to announce the formation of a
special "Court of Military Justice" that would decide the fate of
the accused Booth conspirators. "Bias was evident." A witticism
of the time was that "The Court of Military Injustice has been
organized to convict."
The defendants in the case faced several disadvantages. They were
unable, at first, to obtain lawyers to represent them. There was
no higher court to which they could appeal. All the prisoners
were denied the most basic sanitary needs. "Technically, the
prisoners were allowed visitors. Actually, they were denied even
religious counselors... To see a prisoner, a pass had to be
signed by [both] Stanton and Secretary of the Navy Welles. There
were no visitors."
On April 23rd, jailers received the following instructions from
Stanton: "The Secretary of War requests that the prisoners on
board the ironclads belonging to this department, for better
security against conversation, shall have a canvas bag put over
the head of each and tied about the neck, with a hole for proper
breathing and eating, but not seeing..."
"The bags were padded with one inch thick cotton. A ball of extra
cotton padding covered the prisoners' eyes to cause painful
pressure on the closed eye lids. Sight and sound were cut off, a
mental torture that never ceased for the devices were to be worn
24 hours a day."
Dr. George Loring Porter, prison physician, complained to Stanton
that "The constant pressure of those thickly padded hoods may
induce insanity." [B.R. This seems to me like a type of constant
sensory deprivation was being imposed on these civilian
prisoners.]
Two of the prisoners turned state's evidence to save their lives.
A detective who had been placed in the cell of a Louis Weichmann
"...wrote out a statement that he claimed Weichmann had made in
his sleep." Weichmann was ordered to sign the statement, "...or
face prosecution as one of the conspirators."
"A Col. Foster demanded that John Lloyd -- Mrs. Surratt's drunken
tenant at Surrattsville -- make a statement." This is the same
Mr. Lloyd who earlier had been denied liquor and hung by his
thumbs for 48 hours until he had given a previous "statement."
Col. Foster gave the new "statement" to Lloyd and demanded that
he sign it, explaining that the first statement was not "full
enough."
Several witnesses with unsavory backgrounds were paid for
offering pre-arranged testimony. For example, "Sanford Conover...
was to claim he was a newspaper correspondent for the New York
*Tribune* and had... learned of plots to burn certain Northern
cities, to poison municipal water supplies, and to spread yellow
fever in the North by use of 'infected clothing.'"
In a letter from Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt to Secretary
of War Stanton, he states that each of the commission members
believes the conspirators "are guilty beyond doubt." He further
states, however, that the commission members feel that a trial is
necessary so as to "follow the military method of hearing the
evidence and following the code." But the Judge Advocate General
assures Stanton that "the commission will not allow the
conspirators' attorneys to impeach the testimony of [stooge
witnesses] Conover, Merritt, or Montgomery in any manner
whatever."
NDP chief Lafayette Baker assigned Lt. Col. Everton Conger to get
statements from the various participants in the chase that had
ended in Boyd's death. On May 2, 1865, Conger wrote to NDP chief
Baker "I have directed each detective, officer and private
soldier who took part in the pursuit, capture and death of Wilkes
Booth [really Boyd] to prepare a written statement concerning
those events and to submit the statements to myself... Some of
the statements upon receipt I found wanting. I found it necessary
to add to the narrative in some statements and to rewrite
others."
Around this time NDP chief Baker also assigned Luther and Andrew
Potter to renew their chase after John Wilkes Booth. Although by
this time the trail had "gone cold," the Potter brothers were
fortunate and picked up on a fresh trail at Orange Court House.
>From there they pushed on toward Stanardsville where Booth,
Henson, and Booth's valet had all spent the night in a barn. "The
detectives followed Booth's trail to Lydia where a widow told
them the men had spent the night of Saturday, April 29, at her
place." Unfortunately, from there the trail vanished.
"The preliminary proceedings of the trial began May 8, 1865, when
official charges... were delivered to eight defendants: Herold,
Atzerodt, Payne, Spangler, O'Laughlin, Arnold, Mrs. Surratt, and
Dr. Mudd."
The defendants were to be tried by court martial. According to
then Attorney General James Speed, the legal justification for
the trial of these civilians by a military court was based on
what began to be called "the Laws of War." Former Attorney
General Edward Bates noted, "There is no such thing as the Laws
of War." Yet American citizens were to be judged by this
unwritten code. The authors declare that this "Common Law of War"
was nothing more than a pretext "...for trampling upon every
constitutional guarantee... of the citizen. There is no invention
too monstrous, no punishment too cruel... [that cannot] find
authority and sanction in such a common law."
[B.R. And of course, as noted previously, the war was already
over.]
At 10 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, May 9, the eight prisoners
were led into the court and asked if they wished to employ
counsel. All eight defendants replied that they wished to be
represented by counsel. They were given until 10 a.m. the
following morning to obtain the services of an attorney.
"At 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, May 10, the trial officially
began. The defendants had had only two days' notice of the
charges against them. The prosecution had been preparing its case
for weeks. Not all the prisoners had been able to obtain
counsel."
That morning, the prisoners were officially arraigned and the
charges of "treason and murder" were read against them. All eight
entered a plea of "not guilty." The defendants were told that
they had the right to an attorney, "...but they must supply such
counsel; the government would not." When asked, many lawyers
refused to represent the accused.
Because the defendants obtained counsel and became acquainted
with the charges at the last minute (or, in the case of Edward
Spangler, not until three days into the trial), "In each case,
arguments for the defense had to be formulated on the spot."
After weeks of cramped confinement in the humid courtroom, the
testimony concluded on June 28. "The military commission met in
secret session to deliberate on the testimony."
As people had time to reflect on the use of court martial for
civilians, reaction against it began to grow. "Orville H.
Browning, former Illinois senator and Lincoln's very close
friend, declared: 'This commission is without authority, and its
proceedings void. The execution of these persons will be murder.'"
There was also some curiousity about the backgrounds of some of
the government's stooge witnesses. "It would be some time before
the truth came out... [that one of the witnesses was] a New York
burglar with a long police record... and that Conover, alias
James Watson Wallace, was a Charles Dunham who had secretly
coached government witnesses on fictitious testimony for which
they were paid. Conover would later go to prison for perjury."
On June 30th the tribunal reached a verdict. The official court
record stated, "David E. Herold, Lewis Payne, Mrs. Surratt and
George A. Atzerodt are to be hung tomorrow by proper military
authorities. Dr. Mudd, Arnold and O'Laughlin are to be imprisoned
for life, and Spangler for six years, all at hard labor, in the
Albany Penitentiary."
Outside the prison walls, a crowd of citizens responded to the
verdict of the military tribunal with angry shouts of "judicial
murder."
On Friday, July 7, David E. Herold, Lewis Payne, Mrs. Surratt and
George A. Atzerodt were scheduled to be hung shortly after 1 p.m.
The day was hot and humid. As 1 p.m. approached, Mrs. Surratt was
helped to her feet from the chair she had been allowed to sit in
just outside her cell. She called to her priest, a Rev. Walter.
Her final words to the priest were, "I am innocent." The Rev.
Walter later declared, "They were the last confession of an
innocent woman."
The prisoners climbed the traditional 13 steps of the scaffold.
Four ropes were adjusted about the four necks. At the command of
a Col. Rath, the supporting timbers "...moved forward. A dull
thump -- wood sounded against wood. The two support posts fell
away. The double traps overhead swung downward."
"It was 1:26 p.m., one of the darkest moments in American
history."
"Before Mrs. Surratt's body was removed from the gallows, people
outside the prison were chanting, 'Judicial murder!'"
The remaining four "conspirators," Dr. Samuel Mudd, Samuel
Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and Edward Spangler, had a
reassignment of prison. Because NDP chief Baker, Stanton and
others feared that these remaining prisoners might yet be
pardoned or allowed to talk in the Albany penitentiary, they were
now ordered to be confined at hard labor in the military prison
at Dry Tortugas, Florida.
"Secretary of the Navy Welles said Stanton had persuaded
[President Andrew] Johnson to move the prisoners that far away
where mosquitos and fever were likely to silence the four."
The remaining prisoners were accordingly transferred to the
prison at Dry Tortugas. After they had been there awhile,
"Smallpox spread through the prison, and the victims were placed
close to the dungeon shared by Dr. Mudd, Spangler, Arnold, and
O'Laughlin. Arnold wrote, 'It was done for the express purpose of
innoculating us with this fearful and loathesome malady.'"
NDP chief Lafayette Baker and the Potter brothers remained on the
trail of the real John Wilkes Booth, who they knew to be alive.
On May 2nd, they picked up Booth's trail in Lydia. A boy led them
to a cave where Booth, Henson, and Booth's valet Henry Johnson
had hid. From there, they followed Booth to Linville. In
Linville, a farmer named Louis Pence recognized a picture of
Booth as being that of one of three men who had stayed overnight
at his farm. The farmer said that he had taken the three to
Harper's Ferry. Baker and the Potter brothers guessed that Booth
must be heading for his farm at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
But Booth was not at his farm and the trail turned cold. Baker
and the Potter brothers returned to Washington.
Shortly after the trial of the "conspirators," a key witness,
"...Louis Weichmann unburdened himself to John P. Brophy, a
professor at Gonzaga college... Brophy signed an affidavit, which
he took to the White House to seek perjury charges against
Weichmann." Brophy was barred from seeing the President, so he
next went to a newspaper. "But the editor refused to print the
professor's affidavit on the grounds it was 'too strong.'"
About this time, a House Judiciary Committee was formed. "Andrew
J. Rogers, Congressman from New Jersey, filed a minority report
of the Select Committee on the Assassination of Lincoln." Among
the points made by the minority report of the Select Committee
were that
*** "...the majority of the committee determined to throw in my
way every possible impediment... Papers were put away from me,
locked in boxes, hidden; and when I asked to see them, I was
told... I could not."
*** "Secrecy has surrounded and shrouded, not to say protected,
every step of these examinations, and even in the committee room
I seemed to be acting with a sort of secret council of
inquisition."
*** "There are two reports on this trial. One approved by...
[Judge Advocate] Holt... and [the other] the Associated Press
report." Rogers charged that the official court record of the
assassination trial had been substantially "doctored" by Judge
Advocate Holt.
By February of 1866, Lafayette Baker and Stanton had had a
falling out and Baker was discharged from the U.S. Army and also
from the NDP (i.e. Secret Service). In 1867, Baker published a
book entitled "History of the U.S. Secret Service." In the book,
Baker "...told about delivering Booth's diary to Stanton. The
disclosure created a storm in the Congress. Why had it been kept
secret? Why hadn't it been mentioned at the conspiracy trial of
1865?"
The diary was recovered from the War Department. However, a new
sensation was caused when it was discovered that 18 pages of the
Booth diary were missing. Former NDP chief Lafayette Baker
exploded, "Who spoliated that book?" Baker later testified that
"...In my opinion, there have been leaves torn out of that book
since I saw it." (i.e. since he delivered the book to Stanton in
1865).
Why were pages torn out of Booth's diary? "The answer was that
one or more persons didn't want those missing papers made public.
The missing pages were not destroyed, although it would take more
than a century before they would be discovered."
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"If among those drawn into the whirlpool set up by so sudden a
subversion of the current of human affairs, there were any
suffered an unjust doom, their innocence should be made clear
beyond question."
-- David Miller Dewitt
*The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its
Expiation*
"Historians, in developing the story of Lincoln's
assassination, have encountered [baffling facts]. Why did General
Grant suddenly alter his plans and decide not to go to Ford's
Theater on the evening of Lincoln's assassination? Who, during
that same night, tampered with the telegraph wires leading out of
Washington? Why was the President's bodyguard at the playhouse,
guilty of the grossest negligence, not punished nor even
questioned?"
"Perhaps the most serious reproach against historical writers
is not that they have left such questions unanswered, but that
they have failed to ask them."
-- Otto Eisenschiml
*Why Was Lincoln Murdered?*
"The history of the controversial Conspiracy Trial of 1865 as
most Americans know it is a textbook version pared down to a
digestible nubbin. For history... has to be reduced to a fairly
simple story which average students can understand and recite."
"[The] basic account, with some modifications, is the same one
the engineers of the Conspiracy Trial set out to promulgate. In a
way their success in planting [their version] on the pages of
American history was a triumph in propaganda. For even before the
trial began, the first gusts of a storm of protest were shaking
the legend."
-- Vaughan Shelton
*Mask for Treason: The Lincoln Murder Trial*
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"Many of the people who played roles in the Lincoln
assassination, the conspiracy, and cover-up suffered ironic
twists in their own lives."
"Col. Lafayette Baker threatened to expose those involved in the
plot against Lincoln and attempts were made on his life to
silence him." Eventually, Baker was killed. He died on July 3,
1868. By chemical analysis of a lock of Baker's hair, it has been
shown that Baker was slowly killed by arsenic poisoning.
After the assassination of her husband, Mrs. Lincoln was in an
extreme state of hysteria. She moved to Chicago with her son,
Tad, and went into seclusion. In July of 1871, Tad became ill and
died suddenly of "dropsy of the chest." Mrs. Lincoln's mental
state deteriorated and she began to have "hallucinations" of
being followed and feared for her life. Her remaining son,
Robert, had her committed to an insane asylum. She was released
after four months and moved to Europe. "In 1879, she suffered an
accidental fall and returned to the States an invalid. She moved
to Springfield to live. There she shut herself away in a darkened
room, preferring candlelight to sunlight." Mrs. Lincoln died in
July of 1882.
"Tragedy struck Maj. Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris [both with
Lincoln at the moment of his assassination], who were married,
had a family, and took up residence in Germany. Two nights before
Christmas in 1883, Rathbone attempted to kill his children. When
a nurse tried to intervene, he instead shot his wife to death and
stabbed himself. Doctors saved his life, but he spent the rest of
his years in a German asylum."
Sergeant Boston Corbett, the man who "admitted" that it was he
who shot Booth, was a celebrity known throughout the country as
"the man who shot Booth." In 1887, he obtained a job as doorman
to the Kansas State Legislature. "One morning after the roll
call, he appeared with revolvers in each hand and opened fire on
the legislators..." He was committed to an insane asylum in
Topeka, Kansas, but later escaped. From there he went to Texas
and disappeared from public view.
Booth, Henson, and Henry Johnson (Booth's valet) spent several
months on Booth's farm at Harpers Ferry. About November of 1865,
they went to Pennsylvania, "where Booth reunited with former
girlfriend Kate Scott, who was expecting Booth's child within a
month." Kate Scott later signed a sworn affidavit that Booth was
alive after the shooting at Garrett's farm and that he had
visited her in Pennsylvania.
>From Pennsylvania, the trio of Booth, Henson, and Johnson moved
on to New York City. It is known that Booth went from there to
Canada and later to England, where he married an Elizabeth
Marshall Burnley and changed his name to John Byron Wilkes.
"Reports have him staying in England for some time, then going to
India, where, some say, he died." But other reports say that he
went on from India to California. "Another report claims that a
man who died in 1900 in Enid, Oklahoma, on his deathbed stated he
was John Wilkes Booth. This man was never buried. His body was
mummified and still exists today [1977]."
Michael O'Laughlin died of yellow fever at the prison at Dry
Tortugas, Florida. The efforts of Dr. Samuel Mudd to combat the
epidemic of yellow fever at the prison eventually helped win the
doctor a pardon in February of 1869. "Samuel Arnold and Ned
Spangler were also released from the Dry Tortugas prison.
Spangler, who was dying of tuberculosis, went home with Dr. Mudd,
who cared for him until he died. Dr. Mudd died of pneumonia 18
years after Lincoln's assassination, while Arnold lived to old
age."
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{ Sources used for this section include, but are not limited }
{ to the following: }
{ }
{ Andrew Potter Papers, Ray A. Neff Collection, Marshall, IL }
{ }
{ Bishop, Jim, *The Day Lincoln Was Shot* (Harper & Brothers, }
{ New York, 1955) }
{ }
{ Col. Everton Conger's Letter to Col. Lafayette C. Baker, }
{ May 2, 1865. In the private collection of Stanton }
{ descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts of }
{ Americana appraiser Joseph Lynch. }
{ }
{ Col. Lafayette Baker's Letter to Edwin Stanton, undated. In }
{ the private collection of Stanton descendants. Released in }
{ 1976 through the efforts of Americana appraiser, Joseph }
{ Lynch. }
{ }
{ DeWitt, David M., *The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt* }
{ (J. Murphy & Co., Baltimore, 1895) }
{ }
{ Eisenschiml, Otto, *Why Was Lincoln Murdered?* (Little, }
{ Brown and Co., Boston, 1937) }
{ }
{ Eisenschiml, Otto, *In the Shadow of Lincoln's Death* }
{ (Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1940) }
{ }
{ Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt's Letter to Secretary of }
{ War Edwin M. Stanton, undated. In the private collection of }
{ Stanton descendants. Released in 1976 through the efforts }
{ of Americana appraiser Joseph Lynch. }
{ }
{ Kate Scott Affidavit. Ray A. Neff Collection. }
{ }
{ Kauffman, Michael W., *Report to the President on the Case }
{ of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd., M.D.* Richard A. Mudd Collection }
{ }
{ Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve and Kunhardt, Philip B., *Twenty }
{ Days* (Harper & Row, New York, 1965) }
{ }
{ Mrs. Lafayette Baker's Diary for 1868. Ray A. Neff }
{ Collection, Marshall, IL }
{ }
{ Poore, Ben Perley, *The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of }
{ the President* (J.E. Tilton Co., Boston, 1865) }
{ }
{ Report Relating to the Assassination of President Lincoln, }
{ House Reports, No. 104, 39th Congress, 1st Session, Vol. 1, }
{ July 1866 }
{ }
{ Shelton, Vaughan, *Mask for Treason: The Lincoln Murder }
{ Trial* (Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA, 1965) }
{ }
{ Unpublished interview with Mrs. E.W. Nelson (David Herold's }
{ sister) of Denver, Colorado, Aug. 22, 1873. Ray A. Neff }
{ Corporation. }
{ }
{ Unpublished Voluntary Statement of Michael O'Laughlin, Apr. }
{ 27, 1865, originally in the Benn Pitman Collection, }
{ Cincinnati, OH Ray A. Neff Collection. }
{ }
{ Weichmann, Louis J., *A True History of the Assassination of }
{ Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865*, ed. Floyd }
{ E. Risvold, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1975) }
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To my knowledge, the book *The Lincoln Conspiracy* is no longer
in print. A movie was made based on this book and released by (I
think) Sunn Pictures -- I don't know if the movie is still being
distributed.
It seems to me that the history of the united States took a
drastic wrong turn after the Lincoln assassination. I think we
have yet to get back on the road we *were* on. It is my hope that
bringing to light the true facts regarding the assassination will
be a first step in this process. To that end, I encourage you to
distribute all parts of this series as widely as possible.
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NEW MUSEUM RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT HISTORIC ASSASSINATIONS
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[From *The Dallas Morning News*, Jan. 24, 1995, pp. 13A, 20A]
By John Yearwood
As history tells us, Union soldiers tracked John Wilkes Booth to
a Virginia farm and shot him days after he assassinated President
Abraham Lincoln.
Or did they?
And how about Lee Harvey Oswald? Still don't think he was the
lone gunman who shot President John F. Kennedy?
According to scenarios touted at the new Conspiracy Museum in
downtown Dallas, the real Booth survived long after the
assassination, and Oswald "died in an heroic attempt to save his
president's life."
What's a person to believe?
That's up to you, according to Tom Bowden, the museum's
president.
"We want people to think. We want them to realize that there are
other sides to the story," said Mr. Bowden, former executive
director of the Texas Theatre Historical Society.
"If you think there are other sides to the story, here's the
place to look and listen."
Those "other sides" frequently aren't backed up with facts,
critics say.
"Some people will never believe that Booth was killed in 1865,"
National Park Service historian Michael Maione told *The Dallas
Morning News* last fall. "I'm sorry, but they do not offer
anything that is historically concrete."
The new museum -- a stone's throw from the Kennedy Memorial and
about three blocks from The Sixth Floor Exhibit -- explores
almost two dozen alleged conspiracies involving everything from
presidential assassinations to international incidents to
political scandals.
The museum opened last week in the Katy Building at 110 S. Market
St., although it's only about two-thirds completed. Two key
exhibits are still under construction, one of which will be
finished in time for the museum's official opening Feb. 15.
The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for senior citizens and $4 for
children.
Until the exhibits are completed, visitors are directed to six
kiosks with touch screens in the basement of the building. Topics
examined include the Bay of Pigs invasion, Watergate and the
shooting down of a spy plane by the Soviets in 1960.
Three-minute sound bites explore presidential assassinations and
attempted assassinations -- and the "patsies" accused of
committing those crimes.
The most notable examination, naturally, is that of the Kennedy
assassination. It traces the life of Oswald and the release of
the Warren Commission report.
"You must never forget that the Warren Report is a lie!" a voice
booms through the television in Kiosk No. 3.
It goes on to "reveal" that Oswald, who was shot and killed after
the assassination, was not really Oswald at all, but an imposter
named Alek Hidell.
The imposter was later killed because he knew too much, the voice
says.
The video exhibit examines several other shootings, including the
killing of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the wounding of
President Ronald Reagan. James Earl Ray and John Hinckley were
set up, the voice says.
But things get murky when it comes to the real question: Who done
it?
Mr. Bowden said the video exhibit was based on the work of long-
time assassination researcher R.B. Cutler, who edits the *Grassy
Knoll Gazette*, a newsletter published in Manchester, Mass.
The two men blame many of the conspiracies on the "Powerful War
Machine," repeatedly referred to as PWM.
Mr. Bowden describes the PWM as "people intent on controlling the
White House -- both political and business." When the museum is
complete, four vultures in the lobby will represent the PWM, he
said.
Mr. Cutler, who has been studying the JFK assassination since
1966, wasn't much more specific. He said the PWM is composed of
bureaucrats in intelligence agencies.
"I hope people get the idea that what happened in Dallas was a
coup d'etat by the government in Washington," said Mr. Cutler,
who plans to spend Feb. 1 answering questions at the museum. "The
people who did that are still in charge."
The JFK exhibit, which will be finished in time for the museum's
official opening, is surrounded by a mural of Japanese brush
strokes and symbols from the Orient to illustrate the various
alleged conspiracies. Dallas artist Brandy Redd-Smith said she
spent six weeks painting the mural, which extends 109 feet along
the wall.
"I wanted it to be a peaceful environment from which to
contemplate those horrible assassinations," she said.
The Japanese theme is used in each television presentation, which
ends with the word *ahimsa*. The word roughly translates as "the
truth shall set you free," museum officials said.
Mr. Bowden said he was pleased with the reaction to the museum.
More than 140 people toured the facility last week, although it
has gotten little publicity, he said.
Paula Stoliar of Buenos Aires visited the museum with two friends
from Argentina. Ms. Stoliar said she has long believed that
Oswald was falsely accused.
After the tour, she said she was more convinced than ever that
Oswald was a "patsy."
"I didn't know too much about the story," said Ms. Stoliar, 21.
"Now it has become clearer."
The second major exhibit to greet visitors as they walk into the
building will be titled "Myth and Mummy," about the Lincoln
assassination.
Scheduled to open May 18, it will trace the whereabouts of Booth
after the president was shot. Mr. Bowden said there is strong
evidence that Booth was not the man Union troops hunted and shot
12 days after the assassination.
"I have a lot of information from people who swear that John
Wilkes Booth was alive long after the assassination and died at a
hotel in Oklahoma," Mr. Bowden said. "This is interesting stuff."
Mr. Bowden said visitors will be asked whether they believe that
Booth escaped, and the results will be mailed to Booth's
relatives, who have asked a Baltimore judge to exhume his corpse.
"We are going to present the exhibit," Mr. Bowden said. "People
can say yea or nay."
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ESCAPE AND SUICIDE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
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The following, based largely on information to be found in the
book *Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth*, by attorney Finis
L. Bates of Memphis, Tennessee (Memphis: Pilcher Printing Co.,
1907), was originally posted in Conspiracy for the Day, December
14 and 15, 1993.
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I have long hesitated to give to the world the true story of the
plot first to kidnap and finally assassinate President Lincoln by
John Wilkes Booth and others, as related to me in 1872, and at
other times thereafter, by one then known to me as John St.
Helen, but in truth and in fact, as afterward developed, John
Wilkes Booth himself, in person telling this story more than
seven years after the assassination of President Lincoln, and the
supposed killing of Booth at the Garret home, in Virginia. Far
removed from the scene of his crime, he told me the tale of his
dastardly deed at Grandberry, Hood county, Texas, a then
comparative frontier town of the great Western empire of these
American States.
This story I could not accept as fact without investigation,
believing, as the world believed, that John Wilkes Booth had been
killed at the Garret home in Virginia on or about the 26th day of
April, 1865, by one Boston Corbett, connected with the Federal
troops in pursuit of him, after he (Booth) had been passed
through the Federal military lines which formed a complete cordon
surrounding the city of Washington, D.C., on the night of and
after the assassination of President Lincoln. But after many
years of painstaking and exhaustive investigation, I am now
unwillingly, and yet unanswerably, convinced that it is a fact
that Booth was not killed, but made good his escape by the
assistance of some of the officers of the Federal Army and
government of the United States, located at Washington --
traitors to President Lincoln, in whose keeping was his life --
co-operating with Capt. Jett and Lieuts. Ruggles and Bainbridge,
of the Confederate troops, belonging to the command of Col. J.S.
Mosby, encamped at Bowling Green, Virginia. And the correctness
of these statements, as well as to my convictions, the readers of
this story must witness for or against the conclusion reached,
for it is to the American people that I appeal that they shall
hear the unalterable facts to the end that they may bear
testimony with me to the civilized world that the death of
America's martyred President, Lincoln, was not avenged, as we
have been persuaded to believe, and that it remained the pleasure
of the assassin to take his own life as how and when it best
pleased him, conscious of his great individual crime and the
nation's loss by the death of President Lincoln, the commission
of which crime takes rank among the epochs of time equaled only
by the crucifixion of Christ and the assassination of Caesar; in
the contemplation of which the physical man chills with indignant
emotions and the cold blood coursing his viens [sic] makes numb
the fingers recording the crime that laid President Lincoln in
the silent halls of death and made Tad fatherless. But the truth
will be told, if needs be, with tremors and palsied hands, in the
triumph of right and the exposure of the guilty ones whose crimes
blacken history's page and to associate their names through all
coming centuries with Brutus, Marc Antony and Judas Iscariot, if
they are to be condemned in the story that is to be told.
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Author Finis L. Bates (see part 1 of today's CfD) relates in his
book how he notified what was then still known as the War
Department (now known as the "Defense" Department) as to his
knowledge that John Wilkes Booth might still be alive. Bear in
mind that the government had never paid the thousands of dollars
in reward money for the capture of Booth. The government had
maintained that there had never been an absolutely positive ID of
the person shot at the Garret home in 1865, purportedly John
Wilkes Booth. What follows is the correspondence between Bates
and the War Department.
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Law Office of F.L. Bates
297 Second Street
Memphis, Tenn., January 17th, 1898.
Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Would it be a matter of any importance to develop the fact to the
War Department of the United States that John Wilkes Booth, the
assassin of President Lincoln, was not captured and killed by the
Federal troops, as is supposed?
By accident I have been placed in possession of such facts as are
conclusive that John Wilkes Booth now lives, and have kept the
matter from publication until I have communicated with the War
Department of this government. Very truly yours, F.L. Bates
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[Bates notes "In reply the following endorsements were made on
this letter and returned to me, viz.:"]
[First endorsement]
Office of the Secretary of War Department
January 19th, 1898
(294) Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 17th, 1898.
F.L. Bates says that he is in possession of such facts as are
conuclusive [sic] that John Wilkes Booth was not captured and
killed by the Federal troops, and asks if War Department would
consider the matter of enough importance to develop that fact.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL
[Second endorsement]
(3808) War Department
Judge Advocate General's Office
Washington, D.C.
January 21st, 1898.
Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War.
This is a request by F.L. Bates, of Memphis, Tenn., for
imformation as to whether it would be a matter of importance to
develop the fact to the War Department that John Wilkes Booth was
not captured and killed by the Federal troops.
He says that by accident he has recently been placed in
possession of such facts as are conclusive.
It is recommended that he be informed that the matter is of no
importance to the War Department.
(Signed) G. NORMAN LIEBER
Judge Advocate General
Received back War Department January 22d, 1898.
(294) Assistant Secretary (L.S.S.)
[Third endorsement]
War Department
January 25th, 1898.
Respectfully returned to Mr. F.L. Bates, No. 272 Second
street, Memphis, Tenn., inviting attention to the foregoing
report of the Judge Advocate General of the Army.
(Signed) G.D. MICKLEJOHN
Acting Secretary of War
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"The Wave" is and/or was an Oklahoma newspaper circa 1903. The
following are clippings from "The Wave" taken from *Escape and
Suicide of John Wilkes Booth*, by Finis L. Bates. [Memphis:
Pilcher Printing Company, 1907.]
Enid Wave: Enid, Oklahoma Territory, January 17th, 1903
(Special) -- David E. George, a wealthy resident of the
Territory, who committed suicide here, announced himself on his
deathbed to be John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President
Lincoln.
He stated that he had successfully eluded the officers after
shooting Lincoln and since he had remained incognito. His
statement caused a sensation, and an investigation was made.
Surgeons examined the body and stated the man to be of the age
Booth would be at this time, and announced that his leg was
broken in the same place and in the same manner as that of Booth
after jumping from the President's box at Ford's V6eater after
the assassination. All the time George has received money
regularly from unknown sources, and telegrams arriving yesterday
and today ask that the body be held for identification. It is
claimed that one telegram came from the address, George E. Smith,
Colfax, Iowa, the same as the mysterious money remittances. Smith
is unknown to anyone in Oklahoma. Upon his arrival in Enid today
he commanded that no other person be allowed to view the remains,
and promised to return for the body later.
Mr. Smith was asked if George had ever confessed any of his
life's history to him, to which he answered: "Well, yes, to some
extent. He has had a past of which I do not care to speak at the
present. I think he killed a man in Texas. He may be Booth."
George committed suicide in the Grand Avenue Hotel, taking
poison. He previously attempted suicide at El Reno. A letter
found in his pocket addressed, "To Whom It May Concern," sets
aside a former will which he made, although its contents are not
known. He was worth about thirty thousand dollars, owning
property in El Reno, Oklahoma; in Dallas, Texas, and a lease on
six hundred acres in the Indian Territory. He carried $5,000.00
insurance.
No reason for the suicide is known. George maintained on his
death bed to his attendants that he was John Wilkes Booth, and
his general appearance closely resembles that of the murderer of
Lincoln.
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Enid, Oklahoma, January 21st, 1903 -- The Wave's editorial and
reportorial force have been searching closely for data and
evidence to sustain or obliterate the report that the remains
lying in the Enid morgue, under the name of David E. George,
could possibly be those of J. Wilkes Booth, who assassinated
Abraham Lincoln nearly thirty-eight years ago. All the history or
account of that sad and terrible affair to be found in the city
has been searched, and while the history at hand leaves but
little doubt of the decease of Booth in attempting to escape from
the burning barn in Virginia, that he was shot by Boston Corbett
upon his first appearance from the barn, and that he died on the
porch of Garrett's Virginia farm home, was taken to Washington,
identified and buried secretly, that a diary was found on his
person, etc., yet the fact still remains that a doubt did exist
with the government as to the positive identity of the man
killed; hence the reward for his capture was never paid, for the
identity was not clear. The Wave is still of the opinion that the
possibility of the dead man being all that is mortal of John
Wilkes Booth remains in doubt, but it must be admitted that the
evidence goes to show that if George was not Booth he was his
double, which, in connection with his voluntary confession to
Mrs. Harper, makes the case interesting and worthy the attention
of the Attorney General's department of the United States.
Doctors Baker and Way unearthed the December, 1901, number of the
Medical Monthly Journal in their office, which number was almost
wholly devoted to the consideration of the murderers of the
Presidents of the United States [CfD -- Then, officially,
Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley had been assassinated] and
European potentates. In this pamphlet we found a portrait of J.
Wilkes Booth, with quite a writeup as to his character, a
physical and anatomical description among other descriptions. It
said the forehead of J. Wilkes Booth was Kephalonard, the ears
excessively and abnormally developed, inclined to the so-called
Satanic type; the eyes were small, sunken and unequally placed;
the nose was normal; the facial bones and jaw were arrested in
development, and there was a partial V-shaped dental arch; the
lower jaw was well developed.
Yesterday the editor of the paper, in company with Dr. McElreth,
visited the corpse and compared it with the above description of
Booth, and we must acknowledge that the dead man shows all the
marks credited to Booth above in every particular. The satanic
ear is not much larger than the ordinary ear, but the lower lobe
thereof clings close to the side of the head instead of
projecting outward like the common or ordinary ear. The corpse
has that kind of an ear. The eyebrows of the dead man are not
mates in appearance, which fits the description of Booth. The
Booth chin, mouth, upper lip and general description is
absolutely perfect in the corpse.
The Wave has been searching for a fac-simile of Booth's
handwriting. It was found today in a copy of Harper Brothers'
Pictorial History of the Civil War, and we were startled when we
compared it with the round, little, scrawly boy writing of D.E.
George. We placed the very last words George wrote by the side of
the fac-simile writing of Booth, and it really seemed to us that
one and the same man had written both, Booth's fac-simile
signature shown in Harper's Pictorial History indicated the same
irregular handwriting as George's.
History readers will remember that a supposed attempt was made to
poison President Lincoln in a hotel in Meadeville, Pennsylvania,
in August, 1864. A notice appeared in the window of the hotel,
saying: "Abe Lincoln departed this life August 1st, 1864, by the
effects of poison."
After the Washington tragedy this handwriting on the window was
found to be the handwriting of J. Wilkes Booth, and as it
appeared in Harpers' Pictorial History of the Civil War it is a
fac-simile of the writing of D.E. George, now supposed to be
Booth.
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The Perry, Oklahoma Republican [Another Oklahoma newspaper]:
Perry, Oklahoma, June 5th, 1903 -- The Booth Case:
It is now fully developed that the man at Enid, who committed
suicide on January 13th last, was none other than John Wilkes
Booth, the slayer of President Lincoln. Junius Brutus Booth, the
nephew of John Wilkes Booth, has fully identified the picture of
David E. George as that of his uncle, John Wilkes Booth.
It has always been known by the Booth family that John Wilkes
Booth was alive, and they have been in constant communication
with him ever since April 14th, 1865, the day of President
Lincoln's assassination and the escape of John Wilkes Booth. This
knowledge on the part of Junius Brutus Booth, the actor, was what
prompted him, or his brother Edwin, to make remarks about the
supposed grave of J. Wilkes Booth. He or they well knew that the
body in the grave was not that of J. Wilkes Booth.
People conversant with the history of the published capture of
Booth, and with the fact that the reward offered by the Federal
government for Booth's capture has never been awarded, many
always believed him to be alive. From the time of Booth's
supposed capture, in April, 1865, until January of this year, J.
Wilkes Booth has been in almost constant touch with his friends.
Being an actor, and also secluded by the wilds of Texas and
Indian Territory, and through the anxious efforts of friends and
relatives to preserve his life, it has been an easy matter for
Booth to conceal his identity. In this he has been as smooth as
was his disguise as an old colored man moving. [CfD -- Booth is
reported to have hid in the wagon of an old black man who he had
persuaded to pretend to be moving. This reportedly occurred soon
after the assassination of Lincoln, when Booth was being hotly
pursued by at least some of the Federal forces.] There are no
records, and never have been, in the Federal archives which go to
show any positive or direct proof of the death of Booth. There
has always been a lingering desire in the hearts of the people to
believe that such was the case, but to the close student of
affairs a doubt has always existed.
At the time of the suicide of George in Enid and his claim to be
none other than John Wilkes Booth, the Republican stated its
belief in the confession of the man. All the facts in the case
have pointed, and do now point, to the truthfulness of his death
bed statement. For many years George, alias Booth, has been
furnished funds by his friends.
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The Daily Democrat [Another Oklahoma newspaper]: El Reno,
Oklahoma Territory, June 3rd, 1903 -- From the evidence at hand
there is no doubt that the man who died at Enid last January, and
who was supposed by some to be John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of
President Lincoln, was really that man, he having been identified
by many who knew John Wilkes Booth before the war, during the war
and since that time.
After the death of the man certain papers found on his person led
to the opinion that he was the fugitive assassin supposed to have
been killed thirty-three years ago, and the body was embalmed to
await a thorough investigation. It has been in an undertaking
house here ever since, and all possible efforts have been made to
verify the remarkable claim made by the dead man's lawyer, who
came from Memphis, Tennessee, and asserted that his client was
none other than the slayer of President Lincoln.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis, Mo., June 3d, 1903 -- A
special from Enid, Oklahoma says: "Junius Brutus Booth, the
actor, a nephew of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President
Lincoln, has fully identified from photographs, etc., the man,
David E. George, as his uncle, John Wilkes Booth.
George, or Booth, committed suicide here January 13th last, and
in his effects was found a letter directed to F.L. Bates,
Memphis, Tenn., who came here at once and identified the body as
that of John Wilkes Booth, and has since secured confirmation of
his statement that George is in fact Booth.
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[CfD -- Finis L. Bates notes that "the foregoing are a few of the
many comments made in the various publications." *Unsolved
Mysteries* covered this story. Following are excerpts. Note that
the person named "Orwellek" (sp?) has been investigating aspects
of the Lincoln assassination for years.]
ORWELLEK: Bates had the body preserved. He took many pictures of
the body. Eventually, he had the body mummified to preserve it
for posterity; to prove once and for all that the government had
fooled us all. And he was not going to allow that cover-up to
stand.
NARRATOR: In 1931, six Chicago physicians examined the mummified
body of John St. Helen [a.k.a. David E. George, John Wilkes
Booth]. According to the findings of this affidavit, they
specifically noted a scarred right eyebrow, a crushed right thumb
and a broken-limbed leg. John Wilkes Booth is known to have had
all three of these unusual characteristics.
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
Across Europe, top public officials and corporate big-shots find
themselves under arrest! For runaway corruption.
In Milan, Italy, local residents are amused by the bigwigs
brought into that nation's central jail for questioning about
bribery and kickbacks. Knowledgeable folks say America needs a
Milan-style prison. Like at a central point, like Chicago!
ITEM: Assistant U.S. attorney William R. Hogan, jr., of Chicago,
has been on administrative leave. The Justice Department has
been, for months and months, dragging their feet on accusations
against this federal prosecutor that he arranged perjury, drugs,
and sex in the purported trials of numerous narco-terrorists in
Chicago. Hogan counter-attacked, saying that the Justice
Department covered up the bribery of six or more federal judges
here.
ITEM: The Clinton Justice Department has been suppressing details
of some 18 sizeable firms reportedly expanding their business
and/or acting as money laundries for massive drug smuggling
through Arkansas -- reportedly including Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart,
and J.B. Hunt Trucking Company.
ITEM: Don Tyson, head of the poultry, fish, and meat processing
firm, has resigned his post and left the united States,
reportedly to escape a federal grand jury subpoena. According to
long-suppressed DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] records,
Tyson Foods has been implicated in smuggling dope inside chickens
from Puerto Rico and Columbia. Reportedly, corrupt poultry
inspectors in Puerto Rico have allowed otherwise forbidden old(?)
chickens to be shipped to Tyson's plants in the united States.
(They are called, by the way, "Social Security chickens"... old
enough for a federal pension.)
ITEM: According to Justice Department data, Richard A. Posner,
chief judge of Chicago's federal appeals court, has been
corrupted in at least 8 major cases, including his corrupt
torpedoing of the $200 million embezzlement case against 20 name-
brand stock peddlers -- such as Merrill-Lynch, Smith-Barney, and
the queen of England's brokerage, Morgan-Grenfeld(?) of London.
In court, the sole equity portfolio manager of the Illinois
judges' pension fund claimed she was fired for complaining about
the massive rip-offs by these stock brokers.
ITEM: Garfield Ridge Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, and the
Mercantile Exchange, are reportedly implicated in laundering
hundreds of millions of dollars, proceeds of CIA dope smuggling
through the Mena airport in Arkansas. The bank has been owned by
former long-time congressman (now a *former* congressman) Dan
Rostenkowski of Chicago *and* by Mayor Richie Daley, through his
corrupt family money manager, Daniel Shannon. Another bank
stockholder whose interest has reportedly been concealed has been
Hugh Rodham, brother of the first lady, Hillary. Also implicated
are 6 other members of the Clinton White House, *and* former
President Bush and Ollie North.
ITEM: Attorney General Janet Reno has concealed data showing
there is a secret unit, *in* *the* *Justice* *Department*,
carrying out domestic and foreign political assassinations. They
are reportedly implicated in "suiciding" Clinton White House aide
Vincent Foster, jr., who was planning to insist that "Sludge
Willy" do something about the murder squad or be impeached.
Hey! Warden of the Milan jail! You know something? We need you...
like, *over* *here*!!
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "The Colossal Scandal of the White House". (312)
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THE ANDREUCCETTI AFFAIR
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Longtime readers of Conspiracy Nation and its predecessor,
Conspiracy for the Day, may recall mention by Sherman Skolnick of
something called "The Andreucetti Affair". So, for example, in
Conspiracy for the Day, January 25, 1994, we find
All this and *more* are involved, in one way or another, in
the Andrew Cetti(sp?) [Androchetti(?)] affair -- some 8 state
and federal cases....
(...and that bank in Cicero was taken over by the successor
to BCCI. *And* Marchinkas' nephew and that bank are among the
defendants in the Andrew Cetti affair...)
And on March 15, 1994, in Conspiracy for the Day, Mr. Skolnick is
quoted as saying
Hopkins & Sutter partner Jay Steinberg reportedly has played
a key role in secretly transferring a $50 million RTC
contingency fund from Chicago to Little Rock. Some details
are in a series of blockbuster federal cases here called "The
Andrew Cetti Affair" (sp?)....
...The [unclear] swindles and the "Andrew Cetti Affair" both
implicate super FBI agent Mike "Chucky" Peters -- according
to undisputed federal court records here, implicated in the
murder of some 41 federal grand jury witnesses.
Finally, one reader wrote to inquire, "Just who, or what, is the
Andrew Cetti Affair?"
On Wednesday, February 8, 1995, I received by U.S. mail a packet
of information from Mr. Joseph Andreucetti himself, offering
particulars on this case. What follows are portions of that
information. Let us hope it can peel back the layers of mystery
surrounding the Andreucetti Affair.
(Note that I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with either
all, or portions of, the following.)
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DOCUMENT #1
(January 27, 1995) -- To Whom It May Concern:
Please find enclosed our Notices of Motions and Requests for
Admission which have been served on the subject parties to this
wide ranging dispute. Additionally, enclosed are Certified Mail
Receipts indicating on whom these documents have been served.
It is unbelievable that these allegations cannot be heard because
of the voracity of the government's efforts to quash an
adjudication of these allegations and a public knowledge thereby
of these acts. Indeed, the following is a list of cases which
have been filed so that these allegations could be heard in the
Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division:
84 B 10338/9 (now 92 CV 1512)
90 C 5932
91 1937
92 A 1063
92 CV 673 (now 92 L 00101)
92 C 7048 (now pending)
92 CV 8128 (now 92 B 1791)
93 0371
93 CV 5261
93 CV 6797 (now 92 A 36)
93 CV 7037
94 1375
Indeed, these matters only continue after being dismissed by
Magistrate Lefkow on November 21, 1994 after an *ex parte* Motion
by the government because Judge Wayne Anderson ordered that
discovery continue in disregard of the illegal ruling of
Magistrate Lefkow.
Further examples of the voracity of the government's attempts to
hide, conceal, bury, override and prevent public knowledge of
these acts are best obtained from the Citizens Committee to Clean
Up The Courts founder Sherman H. Skolnick. Mr. Skolnick may be
reached at:
9800 S. Oglesby
Chicago, Illinois 60617
(312) 375-5741
Sincerely,
Joseph Andreuccetti
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DOCUMENT #2
[Xerox copies of certified mail receipts showing that copies of
these documents were delivered to the Department of the Treasury,
the IRS, Sen. Robert Dole, Rep. James Leach, the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee, Lynett Redmer (see next document), Sen.
Alfonse D'Amato, and to the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax
Division.]
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DOCUMENT #3
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
MARK SATO et al., plaintiffs, )
vs. ) No. 92 C 7048
SHIRLEY PETERSON et al., defendants. ) Jury Demanded
Judge Wayne R. Andersen
Magistrate Judge Lefkow
NOTICE OF FILING.
To: Eugene J. Rossi, Office of the U.S. Attorney General, Tax
Division, U.S. Department of Justice, P.O. Box 55,
Washington DC 20044;
Eileen Marutzky, Office of the U.S. Attorney,
219 South Dearborn St., Chicago, IL 60604;
Internal Revenue Service, Kansas City, MO 64999
Please be informed that on October 17, 1994, we filed with the
Clerk of the above Court, this Notice of Filing, with Certificate
of Service below, together with attached Request for Admissions,
Declaration of Andreuccetti and of Skolnick, and attached thereto
six pages of records, all herewith served upon you.
Joseph Andreuccetti, plaintiff, pro se
990 County Line Road
Bensenville, IL 60106
(708) 860-9930
Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiff, pro se
9800 So. Oglesby Ave.
Chicago, IL 60617
(312) 375-5741
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
The undersigned does hereby certify that he caused a copy of the
attached Request for Admissions, Declaration of Andreuccetti and
Skolnick, attached six pages of records, together with Notice of
Filing set out above, on those named in Notice of Filing, on
October 17, 1994.
(signed) Joseph Andreuccetti
REQUEST FOR ADMISSIONS
Joseph Andreuccetti and Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiffs, pro se,
make this Request for Admissions of the defendants and state as
follows:
1. That on September 20, 1994, Skolnick and Andreuccetti went to
the 14th floor of the building at 230 South Dearborn Street,
Chicago, Illinois, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal
Investigation Division [C.I.D.]. Skolnick said he is a journalist
and wishes to speak with the Chief or acting Chief of C.I.D.
2. A woman came to a door, said she speaks for the Chief, later
identifying herself as Lynette Redmer [see above, document #2],
and ushered Skolnick and Andreuccetti to a conference room.
3. Skolnick stated that he is a journalist, gave his card, and
stated he is head of HOTLINE NEWS and participant of a TV Cable
Show, "Broadsides", and founder/chairman, Citizens' Committee to
Clean Up the Courts. He stated he is there with Andreuccetti,
hereinafter "Joe", to report corruption, involving, among other
things, corruption of U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee Jay Steinberg.
4. Skolnick told her that Steinberg, in the name of Joe
[Andreuccetti] has been preparing, and causing to be prepared,
and causing to be filed, false and fraudulent federal tax
returns.
5. That Steinberg has concealed that there was a 900 thousand
dollar embezzlement involving Christian Henning, Jr., who falsely
stated he was a partner of Joe. That Joe was falsely and
fraudulently put into involuntary bankruptcy in 1984, still
pending, by, among other things, a purported loan to him by First
National Bank of Cicero. That Joe never received said funds which
instead were applied by Henning and others for other purposes.
That said bank has been dominated by Henning's uncle, Paul
Marcinkus, until recently head of the mafia-dominated Vatican
Bank. That Henning had corrupted the U.S. Attorney's office here,
including but not limited to Assistant U.S. Attorney William R.
Hogan, Jr., now on administrative leave because of charges of
misconduct. Result: that Henning escaped adequate punishment.
6. Ms. Redmer, by words and statements, showed that she already
knew and knew about much of the foregoing, and did not dispute
Skolnick's recital of said facts and confirmed that Hogan took
bribes, in civil and criminal matters, to protect Henning,
Household International, Edward J. Lesniak, as in U.S. vs. John
Best.
7. By words and statements, in discussion with Skolnick, Ms.
Redmer confirmed that her agency was having difficulty in an
apparent tax evasion case being put together against Hogan. She
confirmed that the difficulty was that Hogan was making charges,
by way of rebuttal and blackmail, that upwards of six Federal
judges in Chicago were corrupt, and took bribes, including but
not limited to, Judge James F. Holderman, Judge Marvin E. Aspen,
and Judge Suzanne B. Conlon.
8. That Ms. Redmer was already fully aware of circumstances and
details regarding Joe having been the owner of Kingspoint
Condominiums, in Addison, Illinois. She was aware and confirmed
that Robert Belavia together with Wallace Lieberman had stolen
said property; that Lieberman on other occasions was a U.S.
Bankruptcy auctioneer.
9. She was aware that FBI agent Mike "Chuckie" Peters, who she
knows, has been accused of murdering or arranging the murder of
Lieberman near the First National Bank of Cicero, just before
Christmas, 1991.
10. She stated she worked on the Belavia case, and that higher-
ups, in her agency, who she understood to be corrupt, were
anxious to have Belavia prosecuted on some offense, to get him
out of the way.
11. By words and statements, she confirmed that top officials of
her agency, on the next higher level, have corruptly taken as
their own personal property the said Kingspoint property; and
confirmed that this was aided and abetted by Edward J. Lesniak,
Household International, [and] First National Bank of Cicero,
among others.
12. By words and statements, she confirmed that said corrupt
doings by the higher-ups in her agency was accomplished by having
the land titles and related records as to Kingspoint to
disappear, to be unavailable by alleged computer so-called
"glitches", and other devices of concealment of ownership.
13. By words and statements, she confirmed that she recognized
that Chief Bankruptcy Judge John D. Schwartz, in Joe's long-
standing case, was highly corrupt. She did not deny or dispute
that Judge Schwartz has a net worth of 140 million dollars and
has not filed a proper federal tax return in thirty years. She
cautioned Skolnick that it was improper for him, "to have those
records," of her agency.
14. She confirmed that she was aware of the facts of corruption
at the highest level in the IRS in Chicago, as detailed about
Chicago and Los Angeles in a Congressional committee report, in
1990, by Cong. Doug Barnard. She said, "Let's deal with Chicago
-- don't tell me about L.A."
15. She confirmed that she was aware that the higher-ups in her
agency were secret and silent partners in at least two mafia-
owned vending companies in Chicago Heights. That said corrupt IRS
officials were aiding the mafia people to elude and escape IRS
problems.
16. She confirmed that her higher-ups, who she knew and
understood to be corrupt, were allowing, permitting, and
condoning various corrupt Bankruptcy Trustees, not just Jay
Steinberg in Joe's matter, to file false and fraudulent federal
tax returns and details; by way of concealing the plundering of
bankrupt estates and money laundering the proceeds, or even
putting persons and firms not actually bankrupt into the
bankruptcy court to be plundered.
17. She then and there said, "What is the point of you and me
talking about all this when those higher up than me in the IRS
are corrupt? What's the point of me even making a report?"
Skolnick answered that his contacts in the building will watch to
see how the higher-ups in her building are going to try to cover
up my complaint. She said to Skolnick, "Do you have contacts in
C.I.D.?" He said, "You can presume that."
18. She used words and statements to show she had inside
knowledge of Joe's problem. She referred to a 54 or more million
dollar fund parked by Resolution Trust Corporation with Household
International, part of the details of Joe's various pieces of
litigation. Turning to Joe, she said, "Well your claim against
the fund is mostly 32 million dollar punitive damage claim from
your DuPage [County] matter," which Joe disputes. She said, "The
transfer (secretly) of 50 million [dollars] to Little Rock, that
was Whitewater, right?" Skolnick confirmed that is correct. "They
only needed 47 (million) down there, what happened to the 3
million difference?" Confirming that she knew from inside details
that the President and First Lady are accused by some in R.T.C.
of being implicated in the embezzlement of 47 million dollars
missing from Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan of Little Rock. "Do
you know exactly where in a secret trust they have the 50 million
in Little Rock?" she said to Skolnick, who said, "The 3 million
difference is for so-called 'transportation' expense, that is,
street tax." She was aware that John E. Gierum was implicated in
said transfer and was a close crony of First Lady Hillary.
19. She discussed with Skolnick and Joe a firm known as Glenrock
Co., secretly owned by Chicago Mayor Richie Daley and his
business crony Jeremiah Joyce. Skolnick said to her, "I notice
you are not writing down anything about Glenrock." She answered,
"That's the Rostenkowski matter -- I can't go into that."
20. She confirmed that she knew and was aware that Glenrock, a
multi-million dollar operation in Northlake, Illinois,
Brookfield, Wisconsin, and Indianapolis, Indiana, did not keep
proper records for IRS and did not pay their proper income tax,
and confirming that the corruption was "wired all the way to the
(IRS) Commissioner in Washington, D.C."
21. That after a discussion between Skolnick, Joe, and the said
Lynette Redmer, speaking as she said for the Chief of C.I.D., for
some hour and a half, she stood up. As she did, Skolnick said to
her, "Tell me, straight in front, is everything said by the three
of us the truth -- you, me, and Joe? Do you already know it to be
the truth?" She answered, "It is the truth, everything said in
this room is the truth," and she ushered us out of the room and
toward the elevators.
22. As part of this Request for Admissions, plaintiffs attach
hereto and make a part hereof, six pages, being true copies of
(a) 4 pages received by Joe from IRS, Kansas City; and (b) two
pages showing that Jay Steinberg, Bankruptcy Trustee in Joe's
matter, caused to be purportedly prepared and filed tax returns
in the name of Joseph Andreuccetti; said tax returns Joe contends
are false and fraudulent, and the IRS higher ups are in a
position to know they are false and fraudulent.
23. At a time and place to be mutually agreed on between
plaintiffs and defendants, plaintiffs ask that defendants produce
for examination and copying by plaintiffs the matters hereinafter
set forth.
24. All records, books, papers, microfilm, microfiche, electronic
or other non-paper technology storage and retrieval, relating to,
or pertaining to, Internal Revenue Service officials taking for
their own personal use and ownership, individually, and/or
through relatives, straw people, nominees, ownership, beneficial
interest, financial interest, hypothecated instruments, or other
interest, directly or indirectly, the properties known as
Kingspoint Condominiums, Addison, Illinois, or any previous name
they go by, and the legal descriptions it is known by or referred
to.
25. All records and other versions of records as in paragraph 24,
as to the 50 million dollar transfer, or amount thereabouts, of
funds, already known to the defendant IRS, in the custody of
Household International, transferred away from the Chicago area
and kept or used in Arkansas or thereabouts.
26. All records and versions of records as in par. 24, as to the
purported IRS lien, levy, or similar instrument, as to house of
Joseph Andreuccetti, 4 North 176 Maple Avenue, Bensenville, IL
60106, and the disposition, if any, of the same.
27. All records and versions of records as in par. 24, as to or
pertaining to Jay Steinberg, whether individually or as partner
of Hopkins & Sutter, and/or as U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee, in the
Joseph Andreuccetti litigation or related thereto, in that
Steinberg has been causing to be prepared and filed with IRS and
others, false and fraudulent tax returns purportedly for Joseph
Andreuccetti.
28. All records and versions of records as in par. 24, as to or
pertaining to, Joseph Andreuccetti and Christian Henning, Jr.,
First National Bank of Cicero, Illinois, and/or successor names
of said Bank such as Pinnacle Banc Group, and Joe and American
Heritage Savings & Loan, and Household International, Household
Bank or versions of said name, and Edward Lesniak and First
National Bank of Cicero or successor names.
29. All records and versions of records as in par. 24, as to or
pertaining to Joseph Andreuccetti and John E. Gierum of Park
Ridge, Illinois and Barton Kalish.
Respectfully submitted,
Joseph Andreuccetti, plaintiff, pro se
990 County Line Road, Bensenville, IL 60606
(708) 860-9930
Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiff, pro se
9800 So. Oglesby Ave., Chicago, IL 60617
(312) 375-5741
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[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1215, Feb. 6, 1995]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE (Mr. Nussle):
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 1995, the
gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Bunning] is recognized during
morning business for 5 minutes.
MR. BUNNING:
Mr. Speaker, article I of the U.S. Constitution vests the power
of the purse in the Congress. Unfortunately, the President of the
United States has taken it upon himself to do an end run around
the Constitution, the Congress, and the American people to bail
out Mexico.
Mr. Clinton has pushed the barriers past the breaking point. He
is basing his power grab on a twisted reading of his authority
under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. That is the law which
established the Exchange Stabilization Fund that Mr. Clinton has
raided to save Mexico.
The Exchange Stabilization Fund was not meant for the kind of
shenanigans that Mr. Clinton is trying to pull. It was designed
to ensure that we would have an orderly and stable system of
exchange rates.
In other words, the Gold Reserve Act gives the President
authority to stabilize the U.S. dollar and protect its value. It
does not give the President the authority to prop up the currency
of Mexico.
It seems that Mr. Clinton needs to take a refresher course in
constitutional law. Only Congress has the authority to
appropriate money.
Apparently, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan,
doesn't think too much of Mr. Clinton's bailout scheme either.
The Washington Times reported on February 1 that the Exchange
Stabilization Fund, the IMF and the BIS do not have the resources
to deal with Mexico's problems. He went on to say that the
bailout should be addressed by the political leaders of the
country because of its broad implications.
Mr. Greenspan is not alone in thinking that this financing scheme
is a multi-billion dollar disaster waiting to happen.
The Heritage Foundation had warned that this bailout was a bad
deal as early as January 25. A study by Heritage warned,
The proposed loan guarantees may bail out Mexico this year,
but they will not prevent another crisis unless the Mexican
Government corrects the fundamental structural problems that
caused the peso's collapse.
Our financial partners in Europe seem to understand the problem.
When it came to a vote at the International Monetary Fund,
Germany, Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and
Switzerland all abstained from voting rather than support Mr.
Clinton's plan.
I applaud my colleague, Mr. Taylor of Mississippi, for pushing
the envelope on this issue by introducing a privileged resolution
that will put the House on record as to where we stand on this
bailout.
His resolution will put us on track to determine whether the
President has acted outside the scope of his authority.
We have all sworn to defend the Constitution of the United
States. If the President is wrongly seizing power from the
legislative branch, it is our duty to stop him.
Mr. Taylor's privileged resolution is just the thing to start the
inquiry into what I believe may be the power grab of our time.
Congress, not the President or the Courts, is charged with the
power to spend the money.
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I received the following from a CN reader who wishes to remain
anonymous. What I plan to do is post the entire document over a
period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 13.
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CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
(continued)
37. Chomsky, Noam, and Herman, Edward, Manufacturing Consent,
Pantheon Books, New York, New York, 1988. (There is also a film:
Achbar, Mark, Symansky, Adam, and Wintonick, Peter, Manufacturing
Consent, Necessary Illusions/National Film Board of Canada, Montreal,
Quebec, 1992.) Chomsky is a leading dissident intellectual, linguistics
scholar, author, and Institute professor at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). Summary: Documents mind control in the U.S. committed
by the media. Explores how "not an excess, but a lack of investigative
zeal into the accumulating illegalities of the executive branch"
demonstrates a need to see what the real function of the mass media is.
"Focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by
force are subjected to more subtle forms of idealogical control." He
gives specific examples of this media deception.
Mass media requires that you be concise. The beauty of these
concision prerequisites is that "you can only repeat conventional
thought" in the time allotted between commercials. If one says that the
news media is one big propaganda machine, someone will probably say,
"What? Where is your supporting data? What are you talking about? What
do you mean by that? Where did you get this idea?" And, of course, in
order to do justice to their questions, one cannot respond in mere sound
bytes. These answers are, by definition, going to take more time than
that. It is not going to happen between commercials. And if it doesn't
happen between commercials, then it doesn't happen.
The real information is there, but only for a fanatic, "somebody
who wants to spend a substantial part of their time and energy exploring
it and comparing today's lies with yesterday's leaks and so on...."
By the time the news reaches the viewer, it has already passed
through several filters. First, the story has to suit the "size,
ownership and profit orientation of the mass media." Second, the story
has to suit the advertisers. Third, reliance on pre-packaged news
sources slants the story. Fourth, the story must pass through the filter
that reduces the likelihood of any negative responses to media statements
or programs, because to respond to the negative complaints takes time and
money. Fifth, the last filter is anti-communism, even at the expense of
fascism.
These filters together act to control the scope and direction of
the news that passes through the gates to the people. A highly
systematized program of propaganda feeds our people and institutions daily.
38. Thompson, Linda, Waco, The Big Lie (aka Waco I), American
Justice Federation, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1993. Thompson is an attorney
and researcher into government corruption. Summary: Documents
government responsibility for the murder of the people at Mt. Carmel in
Waco, Texas.
In February, 1993 approximately 130 people lived in a home in
Waco, Texas. The group's leader was David Koresh. His wife, Rachel, and
their three children also lived in Mt. Carmel. Koresh believed he had a
calling to deliver the Biblical message of Revelation.
Mt. Carmel was established in 1935 as a religious retreat.
"Followers came to be called Branch Davidians. In sixty years there had
been only one incident in an otherwise unblemished record of the Branch
Davidians' peaceful existence with their neighbors."
Former leader, George Roden's wife, had turned over leadership to
Koresh. George Roden then unearthed a dead woman's coffin to see who
could raise the dead. Koresh called the police. The police said they
needed evidence. Roden opened fire when Koresh and seven others went to
take photographs. Roden was shot in the finger. Koresh and the seven
others were arrested and later acquitted.
"Roden also accused David Koresh of getting his 75-year-old
mother pregnant....In response David replied, 'If I took a 70-year-old
woman and got her pregnant, you had better watch out. I'm God.'" The
media took Koresh's quote of "I'm God" out of context and repeated it
over and over without ever mentioning that Koresh had said it in an
obviously sarcastic manner.
Many people who lived at Mt. Carmel held responsible jobs in the
community, including a teacher, a mailman, a Harvard educated lawyer, a
computer analyst, and craftsmen.
"Church services were no different than what you would expect at
any church service. The Branch Davidians were well liked by their
neighbors. What happened to target these seemingly peaceful and
religious people for the wrath of the United States government?"
A previous member, Marc Breault, had threatened revenge when he
was asked to leave in 1989 after trying to take over the leadership from
Koresh. Later Breault accused Koresh of adultery, child abuse, and
gun-stockpiling. Breault contacted Cult Awareness Network (CAN), "a
group that helps to arrange kidnappings and de-programming of people who
join religious groups....Deprogramming is a form of brainwashing."
Another way in which Breault sought revenge was by offering to
help a disc jockey, David Jewell, obtain custody in a custody battle with
his wife, Sheri Jewell, a member of Mt. Carmel. Breault later testified
at the custody hearing.
Koresh himself answered these charges with a swift and complete
denial. Yet these same charges of polygamy and child abuse ended up in
an ATF warrant. The ATF is responsible for making sure taxes are paid on
guns and enforcing gun laws. "Why would these allegations be included in
an application to search for weapons violations" when the ATF doesn't
have the authority to investigate polygamy or child abuse?
It would have been redundant anyway since these charges had
already been investigated and found to be baseless by both the County
Sheriff and the Texas Welfare Department.
Several claims made in the ATF search warrant were false. First,
reference is made to "the upper and lower receivers for" the AK47 rifle.
But, in fact, the AK47 does not have an upper and lower receiver. It has
a one-piece receiver.
Second, Shotgun News is referred to as a "clandestine magazine,"
but, in fact, is a national newspaper with a circulation of 150,000 that
is sold at newsstands all over the country.
Third, it refers to a neighbor who had heard machine gun fire,
but did not say that the County Sheriff had already investigated this
claim. The Sheriff had found that Koresh owned a hellfire trigger, a
legal device that merely sounds like a machine gun. Even owing a machine
gun is legal as long as the owner pays a $200 tax on the gun.
So the ATF raid was launched because the Branch Davidians were
suspected of possibly owning a machine gun that they had failed to pay
the tax on. "Branch Davidian Paul Fatta who was responsible for many gun
purchases, states categorically, 'There is no 50 caliber machine gun out
there. There is a 50 caliber gun that's a semi-automatic that was bought
perfectly legal.'"
The warrant also failed to mention the fact that the ATF had
investigated the gun store where the Branch Davidians had purchased 225
guns. The owner of the store called Koresh and told him that the ATF had
a problem with them buying so many guns. Koresh told the owner, "Tell
them to come on out." The ATF declined Koresh's offer.
Waco had "an extraordinarily high rate of federal gun
prosecutions compared to the rest of the nation." Magistrate Green, a
former U.S. attorney who issued the warrant, and Bill Johnstone, the U.S.
attorney in Waco who filed the warrant, and the ATF may all be ignorant
of gun laws. Aguilera claims to be experienced and informed regarding
gun law. Yet, Agent Aguilera in the warrant confuses the meanings of
several firearms terms: Machine gun, destructive device, explosive, and
explosive device, each of which "has different, specific meanings in the
federal law books." Then, Magistrate Green failed to notice Agent
Aguilera's confusion. This may be why Waco has such a high rate of gun
prosecutions.
The Waco newspaper began a series of scandalous articles about
Mt. Carmel the day prior to the raid, repeating the same allegations made
by Marc Breault.
The ATF lied outright when it claimed they moved the raid up a
day because of these newspaper articles. "The warrant would expire if it
wa not served by February 28 and the raid took place on February 28."
One piece of film of the day of the raid provided to all news
agencies was a piece of film that had been heavily edited before being
distributed. There are glitches in the film where pieces have been
obviously cut out.
In the opening scenes, ATF agents are hiding behind cars while
shooting at the front of the house. Within thirty seconds two groups of
agents climb ladders up to the roof on the side of the house. No bullets
are hitting the ground around any of the agents and no one is shooting at
the agents climbing the ladders. The sounds are the agents' M16 and MP5
machine guns.
Several agents are carrying fully automatic rifles. The agent
climbing up the ladder on the right manages to shoot himself in the foot.
Agent Royster said they had drilled and rehearsed the raid for
months.
Next they show three of the four agents on the roof breaking into
a window. They toss smoke grenades into the room and then three agents
climb in. Following another film glitch the fourth agent tosses
something that appears to be a grenade into the room after them. "It
makes no sense for him to be throwing anything at all into a room where
the three ATF agents have just gone unless he intends to injure his own
men. He also fires a machine gun into the room, twice, without looking."
Someone from inside the room begins shooting back.
The three agents who had been sent inside the room were killed.
All three had been body guards for Bill Clinton during the campaign. A
fourth agent was also killed the same day but before any shooting had
begun. He was killed as he exited the cattle car.
The ATF claims the Branch Davidians had bigger guns. Yet film
footage shows ATF agents with MP5 and M16 machine guns.
Mike Schroeder, a Branch Davidian, had left Mt. Carmel the day of
the raid to go to work in town. When he heard on the radio about the
raid, he attempted to go home to his wife and four-year-old son inside
Mt. Carmel. Mike Schroeder, Norman Alison, and Woody Kendricks tried to
go home. On his way home Schroeder was shot seven times, once in the
eye, once through his heart, and five times in the back. Norman Alison
was captured immediately and told the ATF that Schroeder had been
killed.
The official ATF lie told was that Schoeder and two other Branch
Davidians started a shoot out as they tried to leave Mt. Carmel. But
documents filed in the indictment of Alison proved that the ATF knew
these men were trying to go into Mt. Carmel, "not shooting their way
out."
These same documents also prove that the ATF knew Schroeder had
been killed. Yet Schoeder's body was left for days hanging outside on a
fence. During these five days, his body was chewed by wild dogs and
picked by birds. Finally, after five days the ATF notified Schoeder's
mother that he was dead. Then they collected his body using a helicopter
and a grappling hook and transported it "like a side of beef on a meat
hook." Schroeder's wife inside Mt. Carmel was never notified of his death.
Peter Gent's body was left on top of a water tower. His body
literally fell apart and dropped to the ground when the Feds attempted to
remove it with a grappling hook. "The Branch Davidians buried what
remained of his body."
Two ATF agents have spoken out about their disgust with ATF
higher ups violating simple ethics, morality, and principles of the
Constitution and law. One of them said, "The people that I put in jail
have more honor than the top administration in this organization."
On the fourth day of the seige the FBI was put in charge of the
operation. All news people were kept a minimum of three miles away and
regular citizens five miles away with road blocks and State Troopers and
ATF agents armed with machine guns. The only news given out was the
official select version filtered through an FBI agent/spokesperson.
Despite the fact that it is illegal to use military troops
against U.S. citizens, the FBI brought in Army tanks. National Guard
troops and military equipment can be used if it is drug interdiction. As
a ploy to avoid penalities for violating the Posse Comitatus Act, the FBI
claimed that they had suspicion of a methamphetamine lab, despite the
fact that drugs were never an issue at Mt. Carmel. Governor Ann Richards
never did order the tanks off the Mt. Carmel property, even after she
realized she had been deceived into consenting to their use.
From that point on, all those at Mt. Carmel, including many very
young children and babies, were totally cut off from the outside world,
including utilities, phone, lights, gas, water, and plumbing. Bright
stadium lights were used to keep the home lit up for twenty-four hours a
day, while huge speakers broadcast the sounds of Tibetan chants, rabbits
being slaughtered, and Nancy Sinatra's song, These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.
"One refrain of that song says: I just found me a brand new box
of matches, yeah, and if you play with fire you know you're gonna get
burned."
Punishments used by the FBI included using a tank to crush the
car of any Branch Davidian who fell into disfavor with the FBI, "or in
the case of the children, their go-carts."
Thermal imaging was used by the FBI to allow them to see every
person within Mt. Carmel. Fiber optic cameras were stuffed in the walls
and vents of the Branch Davidian home. The FBI could see and hear
everyone inside Mt. Carmel at all times.
The FBI, ATF, and Janet Reno told American citizens that CS gas
was being used out of "concern for the children." A training film shows
the impact of CS gas on grown men in camouflage uniforms. They are
coughing, sputtering, crying, spitting, grimacing, drooling, squinting,
holding their heads, wiping their eyes, and gasping for air.
For over two hours a tank sat on top of the tunnel to the
underground bunker or was at the hold in the corner of the house at the
entrance to the tunnel. While the tank sat there, agents could be seen
getting in and out of the tank, "and the camera filming it conveniently
cuts away."
"At approximately 6:10 AM smoke begins pouring from the
underground bunker. None of the media mentions the fire in the
underground bunker, yet this is when and where the first fire began and
where many people lost their lives." Then a tank is shown destroying the
end of the house over the trap door to the bunker, ensuring no escape for
anyone trapped inside the burning bunker. Then the tanks proceed to
collapse all stairwells inside the Branch Davidian home.
Then footage is shown which proves beyond any doubt that the
tanks intentionally set the home on fire. "It proves that the Branch
Davidians were murdered." Twice as the tank backs out of the house
flames from a gas jet that shoots fire is plainly visible.
Later, at a second story window where flame is erupting, as a
tank drives out from behind the home, an agent is situated on top of the
tank as if he just jumped down off the roof to the top of the tank. He
is in the process of removing a fire-proof type hood.
Another man on the roof, who the ATF claims is a Branch Davidian,
while on the roof he removes a jacket, jumps down, then very calmly walks
slowly away while removing a hood." He also appears to be carrying a
rifle in his right hand."
While the fire is buring helicopters circle over with men aiming
guns at Mt. Carmel. None of the agents on the ground or in the air show
any concern about explosions from inside Mt. Carmel during or after the
fire. Many agents are shown walking casually around and about near the fire.
Though great care is taken at all crime scenes to preserve
evidence, tanks are shown pushing "what remains of the house and evidence
into the fire." At 5:00 PM the evening of the fire agents are walking in
and around the still-smoldering fire with no concern whatsoever for the
supposed millions of rounds of ammunition.
"In one final crude and insensitive display the ATF raised its
flag in victory over the ruins of Mt. Carmel before the day was over.
One voice was heard that day telling the truth, Brad Branch, a Branch
Davidian who had left the Mt. Carmel center before the day of the fire.
'They are finishing off the job right now. They are destroying the crime
scene. This is the biggest lie that has ever been put before the
American public ever.'"
[...to be continued...]
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THE MEXICAN RESCUE PACKAGE
[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1271-H1278, Feb. 6, 1995]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 1995, the
gentlewoman from Ohio [Ms. Kaptur] is recognized for 60 minutes
as the designee of the minority leader.
MS. KAPTUR:
Mr. Speaker, we are holding this special order this evening
because our various offices here on Capitol Hill have been
inundated with telephone calls and inquiries regarding the
Mexican rescue package, and many questions are being asked by
constituents and citizens of our country that we can not, in
fact, answer.
I was asked today how much money has already left our U.S.
Treasury as part of the drawdown on the deal that was announced
last week by the Secretary of the Treasury and the President. The
facts are that we cannot tell you.
Therefore tomorrow morning, likely after the morning business,
there will be a special resolution brought up here in the House,
and it will be a privileged resolution. In that resolution we
will be asking for a vote of the House and a ruling of the
Speaker so that we can obtain the information that we cannot give
you this evening about the terms of the arrangement that was made
by our Government with the nation of Mexico. Our resolution
requires that the Comptroller General of the United States report
back to us within a 7-day period.
So, we would try to draw to the Members' attention that this vote
will likely occur tomorrow morning after the regular morning
business, the 1-minutes and, perhaps, a vote on the Journal, and
we will look forward to that moment.
It is likely that in the way that the resolution will be brought
up there will be very little time for debate. There may actually
be an effort by certain interests in this Chamber to table the
resolution, and we would ask the Members to vote against tabling
the resolution so that, in fact, we will have an opportunity to
get the facts that we really want.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio].
MR. DeFAZIO:
So, the situation we are confronted with is the Treasury, in
concert with the Federal Reserve Board, agencies of the Federal
Government of the United States, have extended, as far as we
know, in excess of $40 billion of credits, loan guarantees,
currency swaps and other instruments to Mexico, that our
questions regarding the source of these funds, the exact amount
and the term of these funds, whether or not these funds are
somehow secured -- you know, what authorization exists for
extending these funds without coming to Congress for
appropriations; the gentlewoman [is] saying that there is a
possibility that this House will not ask to have those questions
answered, that we could just be shut down here on the floor by
ruling of the chair, and we will have no opportunity for debate,
no opportunity to go forward and ask these questions.
I, for one, as a Representative of a district from the Far West
United States, feel that my constituents -- this is not the
greatest issue before them, but they would certainly like to know
what authority the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and
the Federal Reserve, have, if it was extended to them by
Congress, what amounts of money are controlled, what risks are
involved, what collateral are involved. I mean all sorts of
things we would like to know about even a small business
transaction let alone one of this magnitude.
But in this ruling we could just be shut down and not have any
opportunity to discuss that?
MS. KAPTUR:
That is really what the vote tomorrow is about. We know that the
constitutional authority of the House as the place within the
Congress; that is, the first to authorize and appropriate dollars
through the U.S. Treasury, was essentially shut off. Our Members
were muzzled. We were not privy to information that should be
ours in relation to the dollars of our taxpayers being put at
risk either inside the United States or outside the United
States, and we thought we were going to have full debate and
disclosure on this matter when a decision was made without the
involvement of the legislative branch of the United States of
America.
We now have to resort to special parliamentary tactics in order
to bring this measure to a vote on the floor, and the gentleman
is correct, that there are so many questions we want answers to
that we are being asked, which are impossible for us to obtain,
and we think that that is not what the Constitution intended,
that in fact this is not a monarchy, this is not a parliamentary
government. We are not an arm of the executive branch. We have
our own status within the Constitution, and our constituents have
an absolute right to know when their tax dollars are at risk, as
they are, in this agreement, what the terms of that agreement
are, what the terms of repayment are, what the nature of the
collateral is. We need to know how fast money is being drawn
down. Otherwise you cannot make a judgement as to what might
happen in the future.
What type of precedent does this set? It is our understanding
that never has the authority of this particular set of
institutions within the Government of the United States been used
to such a degree, and, therefore, we think there are some very
serious constitutional questions to be asked, as well as
questions to be asked about the nature of the agreement itself.
You know, I say with some humor this evening, "I hope the Mayor
of Washington, DC, will take it in the humor that I offer it,
but, you know that the District of Columbia here in our Nation's
Capital has been having a lot of difficulty with its finances and
is about to go bankrupt. It has been on all the pages here in the
Nation's Capital and in other parts of the country, and we know
that it's going to cost the District of Columbia real money to
bail itself out, and it's money that we don't have in this
Congress."
So I had an idea over the weekend that what we ought to do for
the Mayor of Washington and the citizens of the Nation's Capital
is to get the executive branch involved because they obviously
are very creative in figuring out how to make things happen and
make it seem as though you are not spending any real money, and
they ought to work up a Mexico-type deal for Washington.
MR. DeFAZIO:
Perhaps, if the gentlewoman would yield, I like that idea, and
perhaps what the Government of the District of Columbia could do
would be similar to what Wall Street has been doing.
They can go down to Mexico, get a bunch of pesos, which are
declining rapidly in value, and then they can take and exchange
them to the Federal Reserve Board for United States dollars at a
preferred rate, and by arbitraging this they can probably earn up
to a billion quite readily, and they can pay off their debts.
I mean, if we can do this for the Government of Mexico and the
Wall Street speculators, why would we not do it for the District
of Columbia?
MS. KAPTUR:
I figure, if the Capital of Mexico can draw on the taxpayers of
the United States, why should not the Capital of the United
States be able to draw on the taxpayers of the United States? I
agree with the gentleman, and, knowing that those tesobonos are
paying anywhere between 20 and 40 percent interest rates, the
Mayor of Washington would certainly be well advised to get in on
that because he could probably get the money he needs in a flash.
MR. DeFAZIO:
I bet, if the gentlewoman would yield further, I would imagine,
if the city were to engage, perhaps, Goldman Sachs as their
financial adviser, perhaps they could do very well on this matter
because, if I could go back to the questions the gentlewoman is
asking, as I recall, the gentlewoman from Ohio and a number of us
signed a letter with a series of questions probably 3 weeks ago --
MS. KAPTUR:
There were 13.
MR. DeFAZIO:
To the Treasury and the Secretary of the Treasury and asked many
of these same questions in a just, straightforward, and friendly
manner. We thought it was things it was essential we know before
any sort of bailout go forward.
Have we had any response?
MS. KAPTUR:
I am glad the gentleman put that on the *Record*.
We asked over 12 questions, over a dozen questions; the first
one: Who are the creditors that Mexico was paying off, seeing as
how they were going to be borrowing the money from us to do it.
We wanted to know specifically. We did not want to know some sort
of general answer.
We have received no reply from the Department of Treasury to our
questions.
MR. DeFAZIO:
So, if the gentlewoman would yield further, it is not exactly
like we are sandbagging them with this resolution of inquiry. We
have been waiting 3 weeks on issues of national concern involving
tens of billions of taxpayers' dollars, and we have had no
response to a group of Members of Congress who have asked these
questions.
MS. KAPTUR:
That is correct.
I yield to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Brown].
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H.R. 666 <== NOTE THE NUMBER!
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What is H.R. 666, you ask? Here is what Mr. Diaz-Balart says:
H.R. 666 would limit the effect of the exclusionary rule, and
give Federal judges more latitude to admit evidence seized
from those accused of crimes, so long as the search and
seizure in question took place under circumstances providing
the law enforcement officer conducting the search with an
objectively reasonable belief that his actions were in fact
lawful and constitutional. Moreover, H.R. 666 establishes a
shift in the burden of proof. If a search is conducted within
the scope of a warrant, the defendant will have the burden of
providing that the law enforcement officer could not have
reasonably believed that he was acting in conformity with the
fourth amendment.
H.R. 666 builds upon Leon by codifying its holding. A Federal
judge may still suppress evidence if it was seized in knowing
or negligent violation of the Constitution.
Evidence gathered in violation of any statute, administrative
rule or regulation, or rule of procedure would be admissible
unless a statute specifically authorizes exclusion of
evidence. But, the good faith exception would apply and may
render such evidence usable. {1}.
Mr. Diaz-Balart, Member from Florida, goes on to add, "Mr.
Speaker, I strongly support the Exclusionary Rule Reform Act of
1995 and urge adoption of this open rule for its consideration."
{2}.
Mr. Diaz-Balart, Member from Florida: add him to your list of bad
guys.
What's that you say? But this is hard to understand, just like
the Andreuccetti Affair! I also am not 100 percent clear on this,
so far. Here's what another Member, Mr. Beilenson, says:
House Resolution 61, the provisions of which the gentleman
from Florida has well explained, is an open rule. I support
it, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.
I am, however, as are others, concerned about the wisdom of
the provisions of H.R. 666, the bill for which this rule has
been granted. As my colleagues on the Judiciary Committee
have written, H.R. 666 "commits affirmative harm to the
Constitution."
It breaks our Constitution's promise, as expressed in the
fourth amendment, and which has been maintained for over 200
years, that all Americans have the right to be protected from
arbitrary and unfounded governmental invasions of their
homes.
The protections of the fourth amendment have been enforced
through the exclusionary rule, which prohibits prosecutors
from using evidence in criminal cases that has been obtained
in violation of the constitutional guarantee against
unreasonable searches and seizures.
We should not only question the provisions of H.R. 666 which
allow the use of evidence obtained without a warrant as going
beyond permissible police search and seizure powers, but we
must also question whether Congress has the power to change
the exclusionary rule by simple legislation rather than by a
constitutional amendment. Along with many of my colleagues,
Mr. Speaker, I am confident that the constitutionality of
H.R. 666 will be challenged and, I suspect, successfully.
{3}.
Mr. Beilenson: add him to your list of good guys.
The gist of this exclusionary rule business seems to be that, for
example, if you are stopped under the pretext of illegal lane
change, then they find marijuana in your vehicle, then the
original lane change violation gets thrown out, this new "666"
legislation will mean you can still be found guilty on the
marijuana possession. In practice, this will mean that a police
officer can pull you over *for* *anything*, search your vehicle
(he now has "probable cause" based on *whatever* he in "good
faith" decides is a probable cause), and if he finds contraband,
for example, -- *this* *has* *been* *a* *legal* *search*. Even if
the original probable cause that precipitated the search turns
out to be invalid.
What's that you say? You say that you are law-abiding and have
nothing to fear? *Wrong*. You have to fear detainment, search of
your property (and guess what? they don't clean up after
themselves after they have torn apart your house), neighbors
viewing you askance due to the police raid on your property at 4
a.m., nervous police who may shoot you if you make the wrong
move, etc., etc.
And if you are political, man can they go after you now.
Going back to the *Congressional Record*, Mr. Torricelli notes,
The right of persons to be secure in houses, papers and
effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not
be violated, the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the
United States.
Today we are told it is an inconvenience, it is in the way of
the police... {4}
Breaking in... Remember what Officer Jack McLamb (ret.) of the
Phoenix Police said?
...there's been much research, *much* research, and much
documentation to the fact -- and I say *fact*, fellow police
officers (We've got some female police officers here too.
Thank you for coming.), -- but I'm telling you, I want you to
hear this, I'm talking about *fact* that we can prove, we've
got the evidence -- an evidentiary foundation that would
stack as high as *I* am, the evidence, I've seen it -- that
the U.S. government, certain factions of the U.S. government,
have been involved in importing the majority of drugs in the
United States since the '60s. Since 1960.... {5}.
So we've got the U.S. government importing the drugs, making the
drugs illegal, causing crime, then saying "Hey! We need to throw
out the 4th amendment because crime is so bad!"
As McLamb explains,
How do you create anarchy in the streets, now? Well, you've
got to do what the dialectic, the Hegelian dialect, said.
And the Hegelian dialect was something that was conceived to
cause you to do things you wouldn't do unless there was
something serious happening in your community.
Here's the dialectic: The Hegelian principle is,
revolutionaries in government have created economic chaos;
shortages of food, fuel; confiscatory taxation; a crisis in
education; and the threat of war, crime, and other divisions,
to condition Americans for the New World Order. The technique
is as old as politics itself. It is the Hegelic principle to
bring about change in a three step process: the thesis, the
antithesis, and the synthesis.
The first step, the thesis, is to create a problem. Crime.
Let's use that as an example. Drugs. Illegal aliens coming
in. Uh, the economy collapses as the illegal aliens come in.
The economy gets worse. Whatever the problem is, you create
it on purpose, O.K.? That is the thesis.
The antithesis is, to generate opposition to the problem. [CN
-- The reaction to the problem.] Fear. Panic. Hysteria.
And then the synthesis is, to offer the solution to the
problem created in step one! {6}.
So the "solution" to the problem *they* *themselves* *have*
*created* is to throw out the 4th amendment! And namby-pamby
liberals and weekend leftists will staunchly block this
awareness! They will lean back, smile knowingly, and tell you
that you need to do an "institutional analysis"! The 4th
amendment has become "inconvenient", drug dealers have merged
with the government, and "666", literally, has arrived. Yet not
to worry -- just leave it to the anemic and oh-so-fashionable
"intellectuals". Straighten out your turtlenecks, boys, and tell
us again: there are no conspiracies.
Amazingly in all this, Pat "turn in your guns" Schroeder appears
as a "good guy":
Right now Americans are basically protected from illegal
searches and seizures by the fact that, yes, of course, today
the FBI or the BATF or the local police could come and go
through your house, your car, whatever, without a warrant.
But if they find anything, they could not use it against you.
Therefore, that is a real inhibitor. Why would you, as a FBI
agent or a police officer, go running through, stopping
people illegally or searching homes illegally if you could
not use it to prosecute? The idea being now, if you want to
prosecute someone and you have cause, you go get a warrant
and then you go get it. If you take away that, which is what
this bill does -- this bill says if they come through your
house, if they come through your car, if they do not have a
warrant and they find anything, they could still use it --
why would anybody go get a warrant?
So what we are really doing as we adopt this bill is just
totally doing away with the requirement to have a search
warrant, because there is not penalty paid, no penalty at all
paid if they illegally search. {7}.
And you thought this new Congress was supposed to be
conservative! Well, like Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise,
surprise, surprise." With a Congress like this, no wonder people
get the wrong idea about conservatives. "It is a great irony that
a new conservatism, believing that government robs people of
their freedom, believing in the right and the sanctity of private
property, would now cause a new exclusion," notes Mr. Torricelli.
{8}. But isn't it just Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Isn't it just
the same bunch of assholes wearing new masks? Could be. *The
Spotlight* notes that "the Democrat-controlled Houses of the
101st and 102nd Congresses passed bills aimed at doing the same
thing -- possibly opening citizens to unconstitutional
warrantless searches." {9}.
You may, especially if you are a new reader of Conspiracy Nation,
be wondering, "Why didn't I see this H.R. 666 in the newspaper?
Why wasn't that nice, smiling Tom Brokaw telling me about this?"
Why you silly person! Don't you know that the O.J. Simpson trial
is so important to your quality of life and to that of your
offspring that the loss of 4th amendment protections must take a
back seat!?
But these *politicos* aren't all slimy scuz. Here are some more
quotes from a couple of Members who upheld their oath to defend
the Constitution.
MR. STUPAK:
Mr. Chairman, I come down here today. I had no intention of
coming down here today until I started listening to the
debate, and the more I listened to it, the more concerned I
have become and the more convinced I am that we need the
amendment proposed by the gentleman from Michigan [Mr.
Conyers].
There are very few principles in our Constitution or in the
amendments in our Bill of Rights that are more sacred than
protecting people and their homes from unreasonable search
and seizures.
As I was in my office discussing matters with some
constituents, the gentleman from North Carolina, who had a
very long and distinguished career in law enforcement, came
up and spoke in favor of H.R. 666, but what the gentleman
said are words to this effect, that the fourth amendment
applies only to law-abiding citizens, as he was 2 months ago.
I say to my colleague, "The fourth amendment applies to
everyone in this country, whether you're a law-abiding
citizen, whether you are driving down the road and being
stopped by the police, or whether you are walking home at
night and being stopped by the police. We are all citizens,
and we all have the protection of the fourth amendment
against unreasonable search and seizures."
Having been a police officer for 12 years, 12 years of having
worked the road while I was a police officer, I also went
back and got my law degree and was assigned to special
investigations. I also taught constitutional law, search and
seizure and criminal law at the Michigan State police
academies, and I continued to work the road and to do special
investigations.
No matter who you are, the fourth amendment applies to you.
We do not know when the resources of the State or local or
Federal Government will turn their resources on you, and you
then become a suspect. You do not suddenly lose your fourth
amendment rights. You cannot lose these rights. {10}.
And Congressman Rush, of Chicago:
MR. RUSH:
Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this
exclusionary rule, this move to enact H.R. 666. Mr. Chairman,
as I sat in my office and listened to the debate, I must tell
Members of this body that I became more terrified about this
piece of legislation than I have been about any legislation
that I have been asked to consider as a Member of this body
since I was elected to this office representing the First
Congressional District of Illinois.
A little over 25 years ago, Mr. Chairman, there was an
illegal search and seizure conducted by the Chicago Police
Department within the city of Chicago.
As a result of that illegal search and seizure, admittedly
illegal search and seizure by the Chicago Police Department,
two individuals were killed [Fred Hampton and Mark Clark],
seven individuals were wounded. They also, the survivors of
that particular raid in the city of Chicago, had the right to
sue. They did sue. The county of Cook settled out of court,
but it did not bring life back to the two individuals who
were killed. That was December 4, 1969.
December 5, 1969, Mr. Chairman, my apartment was also raided
illegally, supposedly in search of guns. They did not come
with a warrant. They came with weapons pulled, weapons
blazing. They shot my door down.
Fortunately I was not at the apartment. My family was not at
the apartment at that time. They entered my apartment, did
not find any weapons, but yet and still, they justified it,
Mr. Chairman, Members of this body, by saying that they, in
fact, did find contraband in my apartment; they did find a
bag of what they identified at the time [as] a bag of
marijuana in my apartment.
Mr. Chairman, upon further research and upon actions by my
attorneys at the time, my attorneys took them to court, and
in court they indicated that that bag of marijuana, where
they had shot my door down, guns blazing, threatening; had I
been there, I would have been killed also, and my family
would have been killed, wiped out totally, they found that
that bag they called marijuana was nothing more than bird
seed.
[...]
Mr. Chairman, I must say to you that although at the time, 25
or more years ago, a little over 25 years ago, back in the
city of Chicago we felt as though we had no friends. We felt
as though the power of this Nation was coming down on our
backs as young men who felt, young men and women, who felt
that we wanted to challenge the status quo.
I must say that it was Members of this body led by the
distinguished gentlemen from Michigan who did come into
Chicago, the Congressional Black Caucus, and put the skids,
put the skids on the type of police atrocities and police
violations of the law and police murder that was occuring in
the city of Chicago, put the skids on that. They came in, and
they conducted a hearing, and because they did focus national
attention on what was happening in Chicago, police forces
there backed up and subsequently were found, they admitted,
that they had no legal grounds to murder two individuals, and
so they had no legal grounds to come into my apartment to
seize and to search and seize in my apartment and to charge
me with a felony of which it was baseless. It was groundless.
It was only an excuse, only an excuse, Mr. Chairman, to take
my life away.
I must tell you that today that is the issue that is at stake
for many, many Americans, whether or not we are going to have
police forces throughout this Nation, any police force, given
the arbitrary power for political reasons to invade someone's
privacy, to invade their homes under the guise of arbitrary
decisions that they want to make. {11}.
-------------------------<< Notes >>-----------------------------
{1} *Congressional Record*, H1315, Feb. 7, 1995
{2} Ibid.
{3} Ibid.
{4} *Congressional Record*, H1320, Feb. 7, 1995
{5} Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 2, Num. 63
{6} Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 1, Num. 82.
{7} *Congressional Record*, H1322, Feb. 7, 1995
{8} *Congressional Record*, H1320, Feb. 7, 1995
{9} *The Spotlight*, Feb. 20, 1995, Vol. XXI, Num. 8, p. 1.
{10} *Congressional Record*, H1324-H1325, Feb. 7, 1995
{11} *Congressional Record*, H1330-H1331, Feb. 7, 1995
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OLLIE NORTH UNDER SCRUTINY AGAIN FOR DRUG RUNNING
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>From *The New Federalist*, Feb. 13, 1995
By Edward Spannaus
Feb. 7 (EIRNS) -- Oliver North's deep involvement in illegal
drug-smuggling and gun-running -- which was highlighted during
last fall's election campaign -- is again drawing attention.
Ollie claimed during the Virginia Senatorial campaign that he was
the "most investigated man on this planet." So far, he hasn't
been, not by a long shot, but it could still happen, if some
people get their way.
It is widely known that a major exposure of the 1980s Mena, Ark.
gun-running and drug-running operation is in the works {1}, an
exposure which will hit Ollie North very hard. The story was,
until recently, scheduled to run in the Washington Post, and was
reportedly killed {2} after many weeks of review by that
newspaper's editors, but informed sources in Washington expect
that it will soon be published in another location.
While many want to portray the Mena story as a piece of the
Whitewater scandals being run against President Clinton, the
truth is that Clinton has little to do with it." {3}.
The real scandal of Mena centers around Ollie North and George
Bush. The Mena airfield in western Arkansas was one of many
locations used for drug-running operations which involved Ollie
North's Contra networks in Central America. North's supervision
of a massive drug-smuggling operation run by Contra operatives
was exposed during last fall's election campaign by former Drug
Enforcement Administration agent Celerino Castillo {4} and
others; Castillo showed, for example, that all of North's pilots
flying out of the Ilopango military airfield in El Salvador were
documented to be drug-traffickers.
One of the key operatives in Arkansas for Ollie North's Contra
apparatus was Larry Nichols {5}, who is now going around the
country threatening President Clinton {6} and peddling Whitewater
stories. {7}. It was because Nichols was spending state time and
money working with Oliver North and the Contras, that Clinton
fired him from an Arkansas state job in 1988. {8}. Nichols was in
regular contact with Nicaraguan Contra leaders such as Mario and
Adolpho Calero in New Orleans, and with Gen. Richard Secord, who
ran the Contra re-supply operation for North and George Bush.
Yes, George Bush. Contrary to the myths about "Iran-Contra" being
run by a lone Lt. Colonel out of the National Security Council,
the truth is that these and many other, less well-publicized,
dirty and illegal covert operations were run out of the office of
Vice President George Bush while Ronald Reagan was President; the
"Contra" operation, for example, including especially guns and
drugs, was directed from the Vice President's office and was
supervised by Bush's national security adviser and former CIA
colleague, Donald Gregg.
-+- Ollie's Drug Depot -+-
The controversial Mena article which the Washington Post has
refused to run, was co-authored by former National Security
Council official Roger Morris and investigative reporter Sally
Denton, and is based on more than 2,000 documents concerning
Barry Seal, a major drug-runner and DEA/CIA informant who was
shot to death in 1986.
Seal operated out of the Mena airfield in western Arkansas from
1981 to 1986, flying guns out and drugs in. The documents
utilized by Morris and Denton in their article include Seal's
bank records, telephone records, and personal correspondence and
diaries, as well as extensive law-enforcement records.
The Seal records confirm what is already well-known: that Mena
was being used to fly weapons into Central America, and that
drugs were brought back on the return flights. All of the
numerous efforts to investigate the Mena operation during the
Reagan and Bush administrations were blocked on "national
security" grounds.
These dirty operations were run out of Bush's office under the
nominal authority of National Security Decision Directives Nos. 2
and 3, issued early in the Reagan administration. Out of these
came the Special Situation Group (SSG), headed by the Vice
President; and then came the Crisis Pre-Planning Group, an inter-
agency coordinating body whose staff coordinator was Oliver
North. Under NSDD-2 and NSDD-3, George Bush was in charge of the
entire "secret government" apparatus -- which not only ran covert
operations overseas, but also against U.S. citizens at home.
This was the true story of "Iran-Contra," which was never
investigated either by Congress or by Special Prosecutor Lawrence
Walsh. Now, with new evidence about Mena circulating, and in the
aftermath of North's failed Senate campaign, there is a climate
building which could finally result in the first full
investigation of the crimes of George Bush and his flunky, Oliver
North. {9}.
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{1} "It is widely known that a major exposure of the 1980s Mena,
Ark. gun-running and drug-running operation is in the works..."
See, for example, *The Spotlight*, Feb. 20, 1995, p. 11:
Skolnick said the Clintons are on a collision course with
their "upcoming downfall," and cited numerous reasons for it,
including the "singing" of Webster Hubbell, prosecutors
wanting to open a Vince Foster case and testimony from
Chicago about a "missing $47 million" that once belonged to
the Resolution Trust Corporation.
{2} "...scheduled to run in the Washington Post, and was
reportedly killed..." See, for example, *The London Sunday
Telegraph*, Jan. 29, 1995, "Arkansas Drug Expose Misses the
Post".
{3} "...the truth is that Clinton has little to do with it."
*Relatively* little would be more accurate. Clinton and the gang
profited enormously, according to Sherman Skolnick and others.
For a good look at Clinton's Arkansas, see "The Name of Rose" by
L.J. Davis, *The New Republic*, April 4, 1994.
{4} Expose of drug-smuggling run by Contra operatives. See, for
example, Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 2, Num. 53, and Vol. 2, Nums.
63-67.
{5} Regarding the *New Federalist* allegations on Larry Nichols:
unsubstantiated. If *New Federalist* has evidence, let's see
and/or hear it.
{6} Regarding the *New Federalist* allegations that Nichols is
going around the country threatening President Clinton: that is
ridiculous. It is against the law to threaten the President (or
anyone). If Nichols were doing what *New Federalist* is saying,
he would have long since been visited by the Secret Service.
{7} Regarding the *New Federalist* allegations that Nichols is
"peddling Whitewater stories": Nichols has stated time and again
that he makes no profit from his "Whitewater stories". Also,
LaRouche, if you're out there and if the Vatican will let you
respond, are the following persons *also* "peddling Whitewater
stories"?
a) Pat Matrisciana, Citizens for Honest Government;
b) Judge Jim Johnson: "My God, Larry Nichols was right.";
c) Mrs. Jerry Parks: "What Jerry had in those files could
have unseated this President.";
d) Gary Parks: "I have no doubt that Clinton himself, or
people behind Clinton, had my father murdered.";
e) Officer John Brown, retired police officer involved in
investigating the Henry/Ives death case.;
f) Scott Wheeler, reporter and talk show host;
g) Authors Terry Reed and John Cummings;
h) *Many* others.
{8} Regarding *New Federalist's* claim that Clinton fired Nichols
for working with North and the Contras: *that* is ridiculous.
Nichols, in fact, was threatening to blow the whistle on Clinton
and the gang. For further details on the whole rotten mess, see,
for example, *Compromised* by Terry Reed and John Cummings -- a
book, by the way, that *New Federalist* has praised highly.
{9} "...a climate building which could finally result in the
first full investigation of the crimes of George Bush, etc." With
a Republican Congress, the Republicans are gonna let Bush and his
gang get investigated?? I have major doubts.
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THE MEXICAN RESCUE PACKAGE
[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1271-H1278, Feb. 6, 1995]
[...continued...]
MR. BROWN of Ohio:
You know, as bad as we thought, as bad an idea as we thought the
bailout was 3 weeks ago, in the last few days, with Alan
Greenspan and the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in this
country, it only exacerbates the problem in Mexico. If you
remember 2 weeks ago, 3 weeks ago, Mr. Greenspan was all over the
Congress, lobbying, talking to Republicans, talking to Democrats,
meeting with Speaker Gingrich, talking to the President,
everybody he could, about this Mexican bailout on the one hand.
Then on the other hand we began to hear stories that he was
leaking out that the Federal Reserve is about to increase
interest rates.
When that happens, when interest rates are increased in this
country, which happened last week, in addition to what it does to
home buying, homebuilding, the cost of credit, the costs to
borrowed money for small businesses, all the hurt that puts on
the economy, what it does with the Mexico situation is simply
pull the rug out from under this whole bailout situation whereas
the price, the cost, as the dollar gets stronger, the peso by
definition gets weaker, which means that the $16 billion or so
that Mexico already owes back to western investors gets more
expensive so that it decreases the chance of pay back. It means
those loan guarantees and direct loans may in fact not be paid
back, but increases the chances there, and at the same time it
undercuts the whole ability of the Mexican Government to get back
on its feet in the Mexican society.
It simply does not make sense that the Federal Reserve did both
of those things, or the Federal Reserve Chairman did both of
those things the same month.
MS. KAPTUR:
If I might reclaim my time just for a second, does it not
interest you that over the last year the Federal Reserve of our
country raised interest rates six times, and during that period
of time, of course, it became more lucrative for funds to be
drawn into the United States and away from Mexico? This was all
going on at the same time. We were asking ourselves why are
interest rates going up in the United States when there is no
inflation.
MR. BROWN of Ohio:
American investors were benefiting. There were incentive for
American investors to pull their money out, and that is what
accelerated the whole downward plunge of the peso. You couple the
politics of NAFTA, that the Mexican Government and the American
Government did not want any peso devaluation during NAFTA, the
Mexican government did not want any peso devaluation, although it
could have been done in small increments during their own
Presidential elections. So the politics of Mexico and the easy
availability of money sent to Mexico, and the American bankers
and American investors sending their money down there, the
Mexicans glad to receive it, certainly with the NAFTA stamp of
approval, yes, our Government was saying it is O.K. to invest
there, all played into this.
MS. KAPTUR:
If I might yield time to the gentleman from Vermont [Mr.
Sanders].
MR. SANDERS:
I thank the gentlewoman from Ohio. We are back together again,
right.
MR. DeFAZIO:
After hours.
MR. SANDERS:
Fourteen months ago many of us, all of us, and many other of our
colleagues told the American people that we thought the NAFTA
agreement was going to be a disaster. On the other side we had
the President, we had the Republican leadership, we had virtually
every major corporate newspaper in America, who were telling us
what a wonderful deal NAFTA was going to be for American workers,
for Mexican workers, and for the people in general.
Fourteen months have come and gone, and sadly, sadly, virtually
every concern that we had at that time has proven to be true. And
after the 14 months, instead of our friends who supported NAFTA
coming forward and saying, "O.K., we admit it, we made a mistake,
we were wrong, everybody is wrong, they were wrong"; but instead
of coming forward and saying they were wrong, what they now come
forward and say is, "Hey, we need a $40-plus billion loan
guarantee to Mexico, because NAFTA has been such a success that
the Mexican economy is disintegrating, their Government is
extremely unstable, and therefore, at a time when small business
in America is in trouble and we do not offer them loan
guarantees, family farmers in America, we do not offer them loan
guarantees, we have a $200 billion deficit."
And what irritates me very much is every single day on the floor
of this House, Members of Congress say, "Hey, we have to cut back
on Social Security, on Medicare, on Medicaid, on nutrition
programs for hungry children and hungry senior citizens. We have
got to do that." We do not have enough money. And yet apparently
there is not quite that concern for putting $40 billion of
taxpayers' money at risk for this bailout.
The first point I would like to make this evening in terms of
this bailout is it is very interesting who is for it and who is
against it. Polls indicate, I think the latest poll I saw is that
some 80 percent of the American people are against this bailout.
Maybe some of the viewers would say, well, obviously all the
Mexican people are for this bailout.
Wrong. Polls indicate, as I understand it, that a healthy
majority of Mexicans are against the bailout because they are
concerned about the sovereignty of their nation.
MR. BROWN of Ohio:
If the gentleman will yield, including one of the major
presidential candidates in Mexico who has come out against and
spoken at a rally of literally tens of thousands of Mexicans, I
would add.
MR. SANDERS:
So you have the American people against the bailout, you have the
Mexican people against the bailout. And one of the frustrations
that all of us share is that we know that, if that vote had come
to the floor of the House, the U.S. Congress, House and Senate,
Republicans and Democrats, and the only independent, were all
against the bailout.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
How did the gentleman vote on this issue?
MR. SANDERS:
Well, that is a very interesting question. I was about to vote no
for the bailout. Unfortunately, it never came to the floor of the
House. I have not yet voted on it.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
How did Ms. Kaptur vote on the issue?
MS. KAPTUR:
On this bailout issue, we have not had a chance to vote on it.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
How did the Speaker of the House vote on the issue?
MS. KAPTUR:
The Speaker of the House has not had a chance to vote on this
matter.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
The chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, the chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations?
MS. KAPTUR:
The chairman of the Committee on Appropriations I spoke with the
other day. There has been no bill referred to his committee.
There is not a bill that has been brought up here to the
Congress.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
Twenty billion dollars of American tax dollars, and there was not
a vote in the Congress of the United States. Is that what you are
telling me?
MS. KAPTUR:
There has not been a vote here in the Congress of the United
States.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
When will Congress get a chance to vote on this?
MS. KAPTUR:
We were trying very hard to get a vote, hopefully tomorrow. We
introduced a bill on Friday. Because the Speaker will not bring
up the bill, we have to use very unusual procedures to force a
bill on the floor, which we expect will come up tomorrow sometime
after 11 o'clock, under very prescribed rules where we will have
very little opportunity to debate. But we have not been able to
get any hearings in the committees of any significance. We have
not been able to get a bill. The executive branch did this
completely on their own, without the Congress being involved.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
Ms. Kaptur, is it really fair to say the executive branch did
this entirely on their own? Let us go back the 13 months that my
friend Mr. Sanders made reference to. What was then minority
whip, now Speaker of the House Gingrich's position on NAFTA?
MS. KAPTUR:
Mr. Gingrich was a very strong supporter of NAFTA, and in fact
when NAFTA got in trouble, he ended up rounding up the votes to
ultimately pass it. There were I think 43 votes that were
switched at the end.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
So again going back to what Mr. Sanders had to say, what
incentive then does Speaker of the House Gingrich have to bring
this to a vote? After all, his folks got their $20 billion. The
American people are left holding the bag. Four hundred and
thirty-five Congressmen never voted on it. Folks back home do not
know if they were for it or against it. What recourse is there
for a Member of Congress who feels like his constituents have
gotten the short end of this stick and that his constituents'
children have gotten the short end of the stick? After all, they
have already lent $20 billion. But it is my understanding, please
correct me if I am wrong, there is $35 billion in this fund. That
means there is $15 billion still to be left at the whim of the
President. To put that as a reference to the citizens of this
country, $35 billion is roughly what this Nation will spend on
its veterans this year. Yet, you are telling me, without a vote
in this body, up to $35 billion can be pledged by the United
States, with little or no guarantee that it will ever be repaid.
As a matter of fact, I have heard the Mexicans have made only one
debt payment one time in the past dozen years or so.
[...to be continued...]
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P O T P O U R R I
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ITEM: From *New Federalist*, 2/13/95, "New Intensity in Brit War
on Clinton" by Scott Thompson: "Writing in the Times of London
Feb. 6, he [Lord Rees-Mogg] titled his piece, 'Even Watergate was
small beer compared to this: Despite a phony calm, President
Clinton is besieged by investigations into his dubious past.'"
"Claims Rees-Mogg, 'As soon as one starts to talk to
Washington insiders, one realizes that President Clinton is
trapped by a process of inquiry from which he would be unlikely
to escape, even if he were wholly innocent of any wrongdoing. And
he is far from that. There are at least six separate processes,
each of which could be fatal to the President.'"
Lord Rees-Mogg "throws the kitchen sink at Clinton:
allegations of drug-trafficking and money laundering; the
Whitewater business itself; sexual harassment of Paula Jones; the
'suicide deaths' of a host of people, like former White House
Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, and so on. His lordship concludes:
'Arkansas is corrupt, like Mexico is corrupt... It may have been
impossible for Bill Clinton to keep his hands clean, but his
great mistake was to think that he could go from being Governor
of Arkansas, a deeply corrupted state, to being a U.S. President
without the truth emerging.'"
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ITEM: From *New Federalist*, 2/13/95, "New Intensity in Brit War
on Clinton" by Scott Thompson: In the same article as above,
Thompson adds, "The British and pro-British press campaign
against the President derives from this strategic conflict, and
is meant to pave the way for the assassination of Clinton, who
has a worse security situation than any recent President,
including JFK."
Let me add that it is to be hoped that NO violence occurs to
President Clinton; in the most *unwanted* and *unfortunate* event
of such a tragedy, it is unlikely that the American people will
ever hear the whole truth of what has been going on. Let us hope
for safety for the President so that he can stand trial and we
can learn the whole truth.
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ITEM: From *The Washington Times*, National Weekly Edition, Feb.
13-19, 1995, "Tyson Aide Protests Probe in Hill Visits": "The
principal spokesman for Tyson Foods Inc. is visiting
congressional offices to complain about independent counsel
Donald Smaltz and his investigation of the company's ties to
former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy... Bob Schiff, a staff
attorney for Public Citizen's Congress Watch, said the contacts
could be interpreted as 'asking members of Congress to intervene
in what is potentially a criminal matter... Our assumption is
that that is what is being sought even if the words are not
said... An investigation by an independent counsel ought to be
hands off as far as political pressure goes.'"
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I received the following from a CN reader who wishes to remain
anonymous. What I plan to do is post the entire document over a
period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 14.
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CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
(continued)
39. Thompson, Linda, Waco, The Big Lie Continues (aka Waco II),
American Justice Federation, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1994. Thompson is an
attorney and researcher into government corruption. Summary: Documents
government complicity in the murder of the people at Waco, Texas and
examines why the government lied in their official independent
investigations of Waco.
A photograph of the front door of Waco the morning ATF arrived
shows there is a child outside, close to the front door as the ATF began
wildly firing. The facial "features of the child were deliberately
blurred by someone" in order to prevent recognition. The child has been
identified as probably David Koresh's eight-year-old little boy. "After
the raid these agents were captured on film running with a small body to
an ambulance."
"Other children were killed that day, too, as a helicopter fired
down into the house." One of the grandmothers testified to this.
Children who lived through the raid drew pictures for the psychiatrists
showing many bullets coming through the roof.
Dick De Guerin, the attorney who had entered during the siege,
said he had seen the room and bullet holes where the helicopter had fired
down, killing a nursing mother and children. But he, nor his former
college classmate, FBI Director William Sessions, shared any of this with
the public until after Mr. Carmel had been destroyed with fire and
bulldozed over.
The 911 recordings between the Branch Davidians and Sheriff's
Deputy are evidence of the Branch Davidian's frequent references to the
helicopter firing in on them. "They are clearly terrified of them." In
these 911 tapes and in a radio interview, David Koresh said that "the ATF
killed his children."
A photo of one of the helicopters used in the raid clearly shows
a 308 machine gun mounted in the doorway. The words "United States Army"
are marked on the helicopter tail. The government said that the three
helicopters used in the raid "were unarmed National Guard helicopters."
"The [Treasury Department] report admits that Janet Reno lied
when she told us that David Koresh had refused to send out video tapes
showing the condition of the children." The report also admits Koresh
did send out a tape and the government was concerned that if the public
saw this tape that "Koresh would gain much sympathy."
Two men from Indiana drove day and night to bring baby food and
chicken feed requested by the Branch Davidians. Despite their peaceful
mission, they were arrested. "Their crime? Bringing baby food to Mt.
Carmel. This occurred only three days before Janet Reno claimed that the
government assault with tanks was out of 'concern for the children.'"
A tank, which had been stationed over the outdoor underground
tunnel, had "agents getting in and out over the underground
bunker....Smoke was pouring from the underground bunker less than five
minutes before a tank smashed the end of the house," collapsing it down
over the trap door to the bunker. "Anyone in the bunker was trapped. No
one in the house would be able to run to the safety of the bunker to
escape the deadly gas and flame."
Autopsies of the children showed that many of them died from
blunt trauma. Coroner Rodney Crowe said that large chunks of concrete
from the bunker had fallen on these people. Twenty-one died from gunshot
wounds and the rest died of smoke inhalation and suffocation from being
buried in debris when the bunker collapsed.
"So now we know why the Treasury Department, the White House, the
ATF, and the Justice Department were so desperately lying to us all
along." The government repeatedly claimed that their attack on Mt.
Carmel, the gassing, the raid, and the destruction of evidence was all
because of their "concerns for the children."
Lloyd Bentson is head of the Treasury Department, which is
responsible for the ATF. This is the same man who chose three supposedly
independent investigators to analyze what happened in the "police
firebombing of the headquarters of a group called Move in Philadelphia."
Yet the three investigators he chose had each been directly involved in
either the planning, execution, or cover-up of this disaster which ended
in a fiery situation similar to Waco.
Similarly, his investigation of Waco also contains flaws. He had
promised a report that would be a thorough and vigorous investigation of
events leading up to Waco. Instead the title of his report is
"Investigation of Vernon Wayne Howell."
Within this report, they persist in calling the Davidian home "'a
heavily armed, fortresslike compound' even though we've all seen by now
that the house was a simply constructed masonite exterior frame home."
The report begins with a page devoted to the memory of the four
deceased ATF agents. This is clearly biased reporting.
In an internal Treasury Department memo the government's
perspective is that the "'agents will be raiding a Branch Davidian Seventh
Day Adventist Church.' It doesn't get any plainer than this....The
military set out to conduct an assault on a church." The memo goes on to
say they will be assisted by "local, state, and military authorities" in
their military terroristic assault on one hundred forty men, women, and
children in a church.
The Treasury Department report berated ATF for not cancelling the
raid once they lost the element of surprise. ATF Director and others
were forced to resign, with full pensions.
The ATF tried to make it seem as if they were admitting to error
by losing the surprise element. But, in fact, they had had the Branch
Davidians under surveillance for a month from the house across the street
and knew the land surrounding the Branch Davidians was totally flat.
Having hundreds of ATF agents arriving in cattle cars visible for miles
away was a plan that held no possibility of surprise.
Also, the report admits that ATF's own public relations person
contacted several TV stations several days before the raid. So, the
claim that they lost the element of surprise seems ridiculous when it
appears they never wanted it in the first place.
The lie that the element of surprise was lost was aided by the
media repeatedly playing a very edited piece of film showing an ATF agent
being fired upon. But later it was evident that he was fired upon by his
own men.
Within a week after Mt. Carmel was burned to the ground, NBC
aired the government's official propaganda as a film, depicting Branch
Davidians waiting at the windows for the ATF and greeting them with a
hail of bullets. Yet the report admits that U.S. Special Forces planned
the raid and trained the agents. And, the Army's Psychological
Operations Training Manual, "a how-to on propaganda, says that making a
movie is an important element of military occupation."
Another lie in this report is that the ATF rescheduled its raid
from March 1 to February 28. But the warrants weren't signed until
February 25, expired on February 28, and were not even filed until March
1. The raid was never moved up a day. "The ATF is lying when they say
they moved the raid up a day so as not to lose the element of surprise."
A TV reporter, a cameraman, and an initial Associated Press
release all reported that one hundred ATF agents stormed the front door
at Waco throwing grenades, with no mention of any hail of bullets being
sprayed at them or Branch Davidians waiting for them at the windows in
any of these first reports.
The Branch Davidians reacted in the normal way any American
citizen would react if their home was invaded by armed terrorists - they
called 911. Eyewitnesses and the 911 recording show the terror of these
Branch Davidians. The Treasury Report itself admits David Koresh came to
the front door, opened it, and yelled, "What's going on?" The report
claims agents knocked at the door, told him they had a warrant, and
yelled, "Freeze. Get down." Yet the plan for the raid shows nothing
with this in the plan. Instead, it outlines "dynamic entry," wherein ATF
teams were to burst through doors and windows with no announcement
whatsoever.
The report claims that gunfire from the Branch Davidians "was so
great that the door bowed outward." Yet photographs at the time show no
bowing in the door and bullet holes going inward only, not outward.
"There are no Branch Davidians at any of the windows" either.
A TV station's video shows scenes of the raid when ATF claims
Branch Davidians were supposedly creating a barrage of gunfire from all
the windows at the agents. Yet the video shows no bullets hitting any
agents, kicking up dust near the agents, nor breaking any windows of the
cars the agents were hiding behind.
Another piece of video shows many agents climbing ladders onto
the roof of the home. Many agents are carrying sub-machine guns and no
one is shooting at them, nor are there any Branch Davidians at the
windows here either. According to the ATF plan this event was to have
happened within thirty-three seconds of the beginning of the raid. Once
on the roof, several agents take quite some time breaking into a second
story window. During the entire break-in, no Branch Davidians came to
the window or shot at them.
The ATF claims no helicopter had guns during the raid. But in
each segment of film wherein a helicopter approaches the house, "we also
found a cut in the tape footage," as well as many signs of heavy sound
altering at crucial places on the tape. "The sounds do not coincide with
what can be seen." Despite the fact that six different kinds of fire
arms are shot from so many different directions, the sound of each bullet
is virtually the same, background sounds cut in and out, and there are
places on the tape with total silence, "all signs of heavy editing."
The trajectory of some of these bullets prove they came from
almost directly above the roof, straight down, evidence that helicopters
did fire down through the roof.
Individual agents' stories do not coincide with the official ATF
story. And the official ATF story keeps changing.
One agent was probably shot by his own men. Three of the four
agents shot that day had been presidential body guards, admitted by
Clinton. All these agents killed were never treated at a hospital, but
by a private physician. Not only did they all have multiple wounds, "but
three of them had virtually identical wounds, a shot to the left temple
that exited through the rear of the head, professional execution-style."
In addition, the autopsy on one of them recovered a bullet fragment
consistent with the kind of bullet used by the helicopter machine guns.
The coroner in charge of the autopsies of these agents, Dr.
Peerwani, has been sued numerous times, once for leaving someone on the
table an hour and a half before realizing they were still alive, and
another time for losing a portion of the body most crucial for the
strangulation death being investigated at the time. What one doctor
thought was a field tracheotomy hole, Peerwani thought was a bullet
hole. Yet, he was the one chosen that the whole case rests upon and the
one to testify at trial.
The report describes an incident where one ATF agent had
staggered to where three other agents were pinned down behind a shed and
collapsed on them. Then one of the three agents administered first aid
to the collapsed agent's arm until the cease-fire ninety minutes later.
But, video of this incident shows that "these agents are not pinned
down," nor are they dodging bullets. "The agent on the ground is
half-in, half-out of a body bag. He did not stagger to that position
from anywhere wearing a body bag. He is simply laying there stone cold"
with no one attending him, while the other agents attempt to hide him
from the camera.
According to the report, agents were supposed to already be in
the chapel. Then, as video shows, other agents threw grenades and shot
firearms into that chapel. It's no wonder their agents were killed,
shot, and that so many received shrapnel wounds.
Tape recordings of conversations between the police department
and the surveillance house across the street indicate someone named
Starleen Riddle was acting in the role of surveillance at the house
across the street. Two women and one man who had lived at Mt. Carmel
were all named Riddle. What are these connections?
The report lied again when they said the police department
recorded the call when it came in on 911. The recording clearly contains
the sounds of the Branch Davidian punching in the phone number 911 while
they were initiating the call before there was any connection. This
could have only come from a phone tap. But, they had no warrant to do
so, a violation of law.
Two Branch Davidians were gone, but heard about the raid on the
radio, and tried to return home. Troopers, instead of searching them or
arresting them, "allowed them to pass the roadblock and walk towards
home." According to autopsy reports, one of them was killed with seven
bullets in the back, wounds consistent with distant sniper bullets. Yet,
the report claims these Branch Davidians began firing at ATF in an
attempt to escape Mr. Carmel.
Two of these ATF agents were indicted by the government for
conspiracy to commit murder in this case, based on another ATF agent's
statement. But the ATF is still trying to cover it up by staying with
their press releases that say these Branch Davidians opened fire first in
an attempt to shoot their way out of Mt. Carmel. It makes no sense that
Schroeder, one of the Branch Davidians in this case, was trying to shoot
his way out, when, in fact, he was trying to get home to his wife and
child inside Mr. Carmel. Schroeder's body was left right where it fell
for a full five days before a helicopter finally came and carried it off
on a grappling hook "like a side of beef on a meat hook."
"In reading the report, each time the ATF is criticized for
something it did not do but should have done, it appears to be merely a
cover-up of what they did in fact do (i.e., the ATF is criticized for
losing the element of surprise, which is not even an issue; the ATF is
criticized for not using helicopters that had the ability to fire live
rounds, but they did; the ATF is criticized for not using any automatic
weapons, but they used plenty; and, the ATF is criticized for not using a
Delta Force consultant, but they did).
"Has it come to this in the United States of America, that
federal agents investigating a tax violation are complaining because they
needed machine guns, special forces military training, and tanks to raid
a church?"
Conveniently, the local newspaper began a series of well
organized propaganda to smear and scandalize the church, namely that
Koresh abused children, had many wives, and thought he was God. The
source for all these stories were "always the same handful of people:"
-Victoria Hollingsworth, from England, who was in Mt. Carmel during the
siege, but was allowed to leave with no harm coming to her while the
siege was still happening.
-Lisa and Peter Gent from Australia.
-James Thom and his wife from Australia.
-Robin Bunds, a former Branch Davidian who had a child by David Koresh, a
child who is "Koresh's only known surviving heir, standing to inherit
Koresh's sizable estate."
-Jeanine Bunds, Robin's mother, also claimed to be one of Koresh's
lovers. Robin and her mother are the primary sources that Koresh had
many wives.
-Marc Breault and his wife, "originally from Hawaii but living in
Australia." Marc was the original source claiming child molestation. He
said he had personally seen a young girl leaving Koresh's bedroom. But
Marc Breault has been legally blind for a long time.
-David Jewell became a supporter of child abuse allegations when a child
custody battle came up between he and his wife, a member of the church.
Marc Breault had approached David Jewell and volunteered to help David
get custody of his daughter.
Breault originally called the State Department and the Cult
Awareness Network (CAN) and made his allegations. CAN "targets religious
groups around the country for hate campaigns in the media." Regardless
of which religious group, CAN always has the same allegations to make,
"perverted sex, child abuse, and brain-washing."
The Anti-Defamation League provides funding for CAN. "The
Anti-Defamation League was recently indicted in California and in
Virginia for illegal spying on United States citizens and engaging in
covert information gathering activities in conjunction with law
enforcement personnel. By saying what CAN wants to hear, disgruntled
members quickly enlist CAN's aid and the media's ear."
The County Sheriff of Waco said that child abuse charges are
totally baseless, since he had already investigated them initially.
Rick Ross, a convicted jewel thief and presently under indictment
for kidnapping, is a self-proclaimed expert on deprogramming with no
known credentials. Yet, he had continual access to FBI negotiators, who
allowed him to advise them but ignored "advice from numerous theologians
and genuine psychological counselors."
NBC has had Attorney Linda Thompson's first video, Waco, The Big
Lie, since Thompson mailed it to them the day the video was completed.
Instead of showing it, NBC is committing fraud in an attempt to discredit
the video. "We have a press that cooperates with the government and lies
to us."
During Waco there were three instances uncovered so far where the
government used unlawful force and deadly force to keep the press out.
In one instance, a video shows a reporter being beaten by one government
agent, while another government agent screams, "Get that camera out of
here." In another instance, Attorney Linda Thompson was detained at a
road block when leaving Waco. An ATF agent kept a sub-machine gun
pointed at her head, while he kept his finger on the trigger. Then, her
car was illegally searched with no warrant. These are examples of "how
the government deals with the press that aren't hand-picked to tell you
lies."
If, after having their phones illegally tapped, their home broken
into, grenades thrown at them, their children killed, their families
gassed, their windows broken, their home rammed by tanks, being fired
upon by helicopters, their babies burned, and their pleas for food, help,
and justice go unanswered, "did finally fire back, they have Texas law on
their side." The law says that resisting arrest is justified if done for
self-protection because the arresting officer uses greater force than
necessary in order to make the arrest.
The government cut off all Branch Davidians' communications and
sealed them off from the rest of the world, "making sure the world would
not know the Branch Davidians' side of things." Yet, they had no warrant
to do these things, thereby committing a felony. The only way the rest
of the world knew what was happening was through an FBI agent's selective
telling at a daily press conference, where only the FBI's hand-picked
press were allowed to attend.
"The Department of Justice Report admits many of the things
Americans saw with their own eyes in Waco, The Big Lie." It admits that
Branch Davidians were tortured for fifty-one days; that Peter Gent, a
young boy, was shot on top of the water tower and left there for days,
while the government repeatedly refused the Branch Davidians' requests
for his body to be cared for properly; that Branch Davidians were told by
the FBI negotiators they could not come out, while simultaneously the
American people were being told the Branch Davidians would not come out;
and, that those Branch Davidians who did come out had grenades thrown at
them.
The Justice report was supposed to be another objective report
prepared by yet another independent investigator. The man selected,
Attorney Edward Dennis, had other cases pending before the Department of
Justice and represents the government on other cases. This is a clear
conflict of interest. He did not even do his own investigation, but
admits in the report that he relied primarily on the information gathered
by the Department of Justice.
A SWAT Team video was obtained by Linda Thompson. In it they
admit to preparing for a "helicopter assault" wherein they will "supply
air cover."
"Was the FBI posture one of 'concern for the children?' We found
this candid interview with an FBI agent the morning of the fire
particularly insightful." In it, the flip agent arrogantly describes
himself as "honed, honed to a fine edge, honed to kill."
The tactics used on the Branch Davidians are "well known
brainwashing techniques," involving cutting off all food supply, all
communication with the outside world, all utilities, and subjecting the
Branch Davidians to extreme stress, perpetual Tibetan chants, propaganda
on loudspeakers, noise, lights, charging tanks, and transmitting key
words hidden within music or white noise in order to force them to obey.
"In November Janet Reno was a speaker at a secret conference on
this type of mind-control weapon and other so called non-lethal weapons,
including weapons such as laser guns designed to blind, extremely
low-level sound waves that can cause violent debilitation, and microwave
radiation weapons. This in the United States of America. How many of
these weapons were actually tested on the Branch Davidians?"
On the day of but prior to the fire, why did the government
prepare a fire break all around the Branch Davidians' home? "A fire
break is a clear area, free of brush and debris to keep a fire from
spreading outside the cleared area." Why did they prepare it when they
did unless they were expecting fire?
CS gas, a gas banned for use in war-time by a treaty signed by
the United States in 1993, was used in copious amounts by inserting it
inside the Waco home. The manufacturer says it should never be used
indoors, ever.
An FBI sniper nest had been set up in the barn outside the Branch
Davidian home. Sand bags lined the walls. Rifle turret holes were made
in the walls for firing out at people. "Someone has made marks on the
wall like you might see made when a gunslinger makes notches in his gun
for each kill." A special ammunition used by snipers was found on the
floor of this barn. The FBI SWAT Team film stated that in this barn were
three sniper positions.
Throughout the day of the fire "reporters announced that up to
twenty people had been seen escaping before the fire. Twenty-one people
were found shot." During the fire, shots were heard in several different
videos being fired at the house, not from the house.
The supposedly independent fire investigator was not independent
at all. His wife works for the ATF; he himself had had an office in the
ATF building for ten years; he carries a business card that says ATF Fire
Investigator; and, he attended the funeral of one of the ATF agents. Not
surprisingly, he concluded that people inside the home started the fire.
Several flame-throwing tanks are shown withdrawing from the home
with flame still coming out of their nozzles. Fire and smoke erupt a few
minutes later in the same places that the flame-throwing tanks had been
just minutes earlier. One tank in particular, after withdrawing from the
front of the house while still shooting flame from its nozzle, then moves
to the side of the house. "As the tank withdraws, it appears to have a
human being speared on the end of its gun, which it quickly shoves back
into the building. As it withdraws the gun again, boards snap off
obscuring what appears to be a body from view. Notice that the board and
the back of the body, or whatever it is, are on fire. It is the driver
of this tank who testified, not surprisingly, that he saw a Branch
Davidian inside start the fire."
In a private interview conducted later at the remains of Mt.
Carmel, one of the National Guardsman who drove a tank on the day of the
fire said he saw what he thought was an FBI agent inside the house,
someone dressed in all black (like the other FBI agents) with three
letters on his back that looked like FBI. Both the interviewer's and the
National Guardsman's identities are known to Linda Thompson, but that
information has to be kept confidential because their lives are on the line.
Another tank "can be seen through the trees shooting flames to
light a portion of the building that isn't burning."
In what has become standard operating procedure, Janet Reno
publicly stated that Combat Engineer Vehicles (CEV) One and Two had no
flame-throwing equipment and had been examined by investigators.
Incredibly, what she neglected to mention was that CEV Two had broken
down and was replaced by yet another CEV.
"The Department of Justice report says this CEV was not equipped
with tear gas, but fails to mention what it was equipped with. The
report never even mentions the other tanks, CEVs and other equipment they
were carrying that day, either."
Military experts have identified as one of the tanks present the
day of the fire as being an M67 flame-throwing tank. One of its
characteristics "is that it has a fake barrel extension on the end of the
gun to disguise the flame thrower." One video shows this tank sitting
near the edge of the remains after the fire. It has charring on its front.
In reaction to Attorney Linda Thompson's first video, Waco, The
Big Lie, there have been numerous Waco protest rallies held throughout
the country. In a Department of Justice press briefing, a spokesman for
the Department of Justice said they had seen the video and it raised
their eyebrows. They submitted the video for expert analysis to the
University of Maryland. The University's preliminary analysis said what
you see is perhaps either light, dust, a defect in the video, or the
dispersal agent falling to the ground.
At the request of one reporter, other military experts viewed the
film and concluded that the CEV "was not a conventional vehicle," but had
been "jury-rigged" for its particular mission at Waco. The reporter asks
the spokesman if he thinks that is flame at the front of the CEV. The
spokesman said he didn't know what it is.
The nagging trail back "to special forces just keeps popping
up." Soldier of Fortune magazine said the supposed flames were mere
reflections. The principal advisor to this magazine is the founder of
Delta Force; its editor is former Delta Force. Reed Irvine of the
Washington Inquirer told the bald-faced lie that the Waco video had been
"doctored." He refused our offer to have the video analyzed. He, too,
writes for this magazine.
The claim that the flames are merely a reflection are refuted by
the fact that one video shows the flames while the tank is in the shadow
of the building. "No reflection can create a light source in shadow."
Some of the government's own footage shows the flames from the
flame-throwing tanks. Even the government's infra-red pictures used to
explain away the idea that the government started the fire are presented
with a fraudulent explanation. "So who has a motive to cover-up here?"
Under the Posse Comitatus Act, it is illegal to use the military
against U.S. citizens. After release of Waco, The Big Lie, some
Congressmen sent questioning letters. The answers to the Congressmen
cited another law which made military participation legal, but not direct
or active participation. They were assured that there was no direct or
active participation and that no military equipment was used that had
operable weapons systems. Yet, example after example of video footage
shows: A tank delivering a forty millimeter round with the supposedly
inoperable weapons system; mortar rounds that could have been delivered
only by an experienced member of the military; a U.S. Marine standing
with an FBI agent saying, "We're just here to help" and the FBI agent
replies, "Here to take over;" active duty military re-fueling the tanks
and preparing to get in the tanks the morning of the fire; active duty
military flying the Army evacuation and FBI helicopters; and, active duty
military emerging from the tanks after the fire.
Many of these active duty military "are wearing dark maroon
berets, just like those consulting Seventh Army Special Forces from Fort
Bragg wear."
Portable flame-throwers were "used in World War II and Vietnam,
particularly to blast underground bunkers." Several scenes show agents
wearing them on their backs, while one shows a good view of an agent with
a portable flame-thrower getting out of a tank.
"In this scene two agents obviously are dragging what appears to
be a body, but this does not appear to be a rescue. As they reach the
far side of the tank you can see that one of the agents has a portable
tank on his back and engages in a spraying motion. Suddenly fire flares up."
There is evidence that agents used incendiary bombs after the
fire to destroy the contents of a concrete structure that used to be
inside the home. As the agents leave, an explosion can be heard and
flames erupt from inside. Yet, the agents do not run or take cover, as
they would be expected to do if this were an unexpected explosion.
Preservation of evidence is treated as sacred at any crime
scene. Yet the crime scene at Mt. Carmel was treated very differently.
Tanks constantly pushed debris into the fire, underground tunnels were
filled in, and after the fire was out, the whole area was bulldozed.
"And continuing to show the same careful regard for preservation of
evidence as demonstrated earlier and with a total lack of respect for the
humanity lost at Mt. Carmel, an agent relieves himself in the ashes
beneath one of the tanks that was used to destroy the Branch Davidians."
Ironically, the Branch Davidians were attacked fifty years to the
day after the Nazis attacked the Warsaw Ghetto.
Also, the Branch Davidians were burned to the ground fifty years
to the day after the Nazis burned the Warsaw Ghetto to the ground.
[...to be continued...]
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75 SPECIFIC DISCRETIONARY CUTS
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[From the *Congressional Record*, Feb. 7, 1995, H1285-H1286]
THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE:
Under the Speaker's announced policy of January 4, 1995, the
gentleman from Florida [Mr. Goss] is recognized during morning
business for 5 minutes.
MR. GOSS:
Mr. Speaker, today I present my annual list of specific spending
cut suggestions. I introduced these yesterday in the *Record* [CN
-- see below]. Today I want to talk a little bit about them and
elaborate on them.
These are 75 discretionary cuts which would save an estimated
$275 billion, those are taxpayer dollars, over the next 5 years.
That is just about double the amount of spending cuts the
President has offered us in his most recent budget package.
These savings could be produced without touching a single non-
discretionary item. Let me put that into English for the rest of
America. Non-discretionary item would mean entitlement, and that
translates into Social Security, Medicare and so forth, Medicaid.
This list of budget cuts I am submitting does not touch Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid or any of those items that we call
entitlements. It is only the discretionary items, the things that
we control the purse strings on here in the House of
Representatives, the power of the purse as it were.
It is imperative that before we ask Americans to sacrifice any of
their earned benefits we demonstrate an ability to root out the
hundreds of billions of dollars of wasteful spending in this
Government. And that is not just rhetoric. That is something that
the Grace Commission, the GAO, anybody who has looked at our
spending here will tell you, that every year we have waste by the
billions, by the tens of billions, by the hundreds of billions.
How in the world are we going to balance the budget and do all of
these things we have promised if we have that kind of waste at
that level? The answer is we are not until we get at it, and the
hard work of pinning down the specifics has got to start
somewhere. That is why we submit our list of what could be cut.
Mr. Speaker, an administration official was quoted in Sunday's
Washington Post as saying that, "While the deficit is not
optimal, it is not out of control." Let me tell my colleagues,
the national debt is $4.5 trillion. The debt service on that is
about $250 billion every year, every year, $250 billion, so that
is a trillion every 4 years just in interest payments. Put
simply, this empty rhetoric does not put, in my view, the
administration in a very good light. I wonder what an optimal
debt situation would be.
The White House has consistently ignored the tremendous waste and
duplicative spending in the Federal budget and our Federal
Government. We have seen that in the budget that they sent up.
Instead of opting to try to reduce the deficit through tax hikes
and on the backs of senior citizens, they should be looking at
cuts, not raising taxes.
Mr. Speaker, the American people sent a powerful message to this
Congress that was loud and clear, and it was cut spending and do
it now, get rid of the waste, the redundancy, the out-of-date,
the off-target, the things we do not need anymore. The American
people did not say trim a little here or trim a little there. The
American people did not say move with caution and go slow. The
American people told this Congress to look for any and all
wasteful spending and get rid of it, take it out.
The Vice President complained yesterday that "Republicans haven't
put any cuts on the table." Well, they cannot say that anymore,
because the cuts are out there for all to see, a list of 75
totalling $275 billion over the next 5 years. I stand before this
Congress with most of the same cuts I introduced in the past two
terms, and some of them which we have made some progress on, but
most of them have gone untouched. So we are still able to come
forward with a list of waste of 75 items.
I invite the administration to debate us on the specifics. Tell
us why we need to be spending $140 million on grants to prepare
youths and adults to be homemakers. Explain to the American
people why when 99 percent of America's farmers have electricity
and 98 percent have phones we need to be spending billions of
dollars in assistance to rural electric and telephone utilities.
The American people deserve better. They need answers. They
deserve full debate on these and other programs that serve narrow
special interests rather than the collective good of our country
and all taxpayers.
Mr. Speaker, we must strive to move beyond the rhetoric, to
achieve the fundamental change that we talk about here with real
action and with specifics. It is time to debate real spending
cuts and real fiscal reform, and I am confident if we do we
actually will have taken a very important step toward restoring
fiscal responsibility and, perhaps even more than that,
retaining, restoring some of the credit that this institution
needs to build with the American people.
We have done the balanced budget program in the House. We have
passed it. We have done that unfunded mandates program in the
House. We have passed it. We did the line item veto. {1}. We did
it yesterday, we passed it. We are going to be talking about and
going to introduce a supermajority to raise taxes. Those are all
critically important tools to get a handle on spending, to make
sure we do the right thing.
But the proof will come. Do we have the courage, do we have the
wisdom to pick out the things that are true waste and start
chopping them? That is actually the easiest part of the job. If
it is not doing much for very many Americans, then why are we
spending a lot of money on it? Usually the answer is political.
"Well, it's in my district," or "I hate to do something to that
program to cut it." That is something we cannot be doing anymore.
We cannot afford it, and it is not good expenditure of money.
Accountability time has come, and we welcome accountability time,
and I welcome the American people to take a look at our list of
75 cuts.
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[From the *Congressional Record*, Feb. 6, 1995, H1265-H1266]
Thrifty Fifty Plus: Seventy-Five Suggestions
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(In millions of dollars/5 years) Savings
Cancel the National Aerospace Plane
(NASP).................................... 300
Continue partial civilian hiring freeze at
Department of Defense..................... 6,850
Eliminate below-cost timber sales from
National Forests.......................... 235
Lower target prices for subsidized crops
3 percent annually........................ 11,000
Eliminate the Market Promotion Program...... 500
End the Federal Crop Insurance Program and
replace with standing authority for
disaster assistance....................... 1,660
Limit Federal highway spending to the amount
brought in by motor vehicle fuel taxes.... 8,850
Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.................. 3,080
Reduce Commodity Credit Corporation
subsidies for those with off-farm incomes
over $100,000............................. 660
Reduce the Attending Physician Office by
33 percent................................ 2.5
Fully implement H.R. 2452 (102nd) to
provide additional energy conservation
measures for Federal agencies............. 1,900
Enact H.R. 1620 (103rd) to prohibit direct
Federal benefits and unemployment
benefits to illegal aliens................ 27,000
Eliminate the Tobacco Price-Support Program 100
Consolidate the Bureau of Indian Affairs.... 53
Close 20 under-utilized black lung offices.. 0.3
Allow private sector investment in the
Space Shuttle............................. 1,522
Eliminate Rural Economic and Community-
Development (RECD) duplication with the
Small Business Administration (SBA)....... 913
Eliminate the Rural Electric Administration. 3,000
Terminate all highway "demonstration
projects"................................. 2,500
Lower the travel budgets of all non-postal,
civilian agencies by 15 percent........... 858
Lower by 10 percent per annum the projected
growth rate of non-postal, civilian
agency's overhead (excluding travel)...... 64,000
Abolish Cotton Price Support and Loan
Programs.................................. 12,700
Cut the Foreign Aid budget (150 Account)
by 15 percent and make all earmarks in
that account subject to a two-thirds
vote for passage.......................... 13,125
Phase out the Foreign Agricultural
Service Cooperation funding............... 150
Eliminate the Appalachian Regional
Commission................................ 690
Roll back Congressional pay raise to
$89,500................................... 118
Sell the National Helium Reserves to a
joint venture comprised of current
employees and other private investors..... 692
Reduce the "Franking" allocation to Members
of Congress by 50 percent................. 167
Cut National Endowment for the Arts by
50 percent................................ 2,600
Cut funding for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting by 50 percent................ 883
Phase out subsidies for AMTRAK.............. 2,660
Phase out ACTION (umbrella organization for
domestic volunteer activities) as a
tax-supported program..................... 660
Facilitate contracting out and privatization
of military commissaries.................. 4,170
Terminate the Interstate Commerce
Commission................................ 188
Phase out U.S. Fire Administration.......... 10
End funding for all non-energy Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA) activities......... 580
Eliminate Essential Air Services subsidies.. 195
Eliminate Consumer Homemaking grants........ 140
Privatize the House and Senate Gymnasiums... 1.1
Reduce the Legislative Branch Appropriations
by 20 percent............................. 2,844
Reduce the Executive Office of the President
appropriation by 20 percent............... 284
Close the Bureau of Mines and merge its data
gathering activities with other Interior
Department research agencies.............. 140
Raise the level and schedule of the Power
Marketing Administration's debt repayment. 970
Eliminate the Clean Coal Program............ 300
Reduce the fill rate for the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve......................... 1,000
End all new Bureau of Water Reclamation
water projects............................ 7,400
Eliminate the Dairy Subsidy Program......... 5,000
Merge the Agricultural Research Service, the
Cooperative State Research Service, and
the Agricultural Extension Service; cut
funding by 50 percent..................... 3,950
Privatize the Government National Mortgage
Association (Ginnie Mae).................. 2,000
Eliminate the Economic Development
Administration............................ 1,140
Eliminate non-targeted vocational State
funding................................... 3,400
Consolidate the administrative costs of the
AFDC, Food Stamps, and Medicaid programs.. 6,300
Replace new public housing construction with
vouchers.................................. 610
Increase Medicare safeguard funding by $540
million over 5 years (net savings)........ 5,400
Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation.... 1,900
End postal subsidies to not-for-profit
organizations (excluding blind and
handicapped individuals).................. 2,000
Eliminate HUD special-purpose grants........ 990
Reform vacation and overtime for the Senior
Executive Service......................... 540
Eliminate DOD [Dept. of Defense] payments
for indirect research and development;
substitute direct R&D..................... 14,740
Reduce DOE [Dept. of Energy] energy tech-
nology spending........................... 2,550
Scale back Rural Rental Housing Assistance
Program................................... 1,400
Reduce mass transit grants; eliminate
operating subsidies....................... 6,250
Eliminate Rural Development Association
loans and guarantees...................... 1,380
Eliminate "Impact Aid" to school districts
with military bases....................... 3,850
Consolidate Social Services programs........ 1,000
Reduce NIH [Nat. Inst. Health] funding by
10 percent, concentrating on overhead..... 4,900
Freeze the number of rental assistance
commitments............................... 5,700
Scale back Low Income Home Energy Assistance
Grants.................................... 5,150
Service Contract Act reform................. 900
Reduce overhead in federally-sponsored
university research....................... 1,000
Strengthen and restructure NASA
(NPR proposal)............................ 1,500
Eliminate redundant polar satellite
programs.................................. 250
Streamline HUD.............................. 144
Reform prison construction.................. 580
Eliminate Travel, Tourism and Export
Promotion Administration.................. 1,002
-------------------------<< Notes >>-----------------------------
{1} Regarding the line item veto: Bill Moyers, on or about Feb.
15, 1995, in a commentary on the NBC Nightly News, stated that
there are loopholes in the line item veto. He specifically
mentioned that large pharmaceutical companies, big contributors
to congressional campaign funds, can wriggle out of it.
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THE MEXICAN RESCUE PACKAGE
[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1271-H1278, Feb. 6, 1995]
[...continued...]
MS. KAPTUR:
If the gentleman will yield, what has been very interesting is if
you look back over the decade of the 1980s, this fund was used
every once in a while, especially around the 1982 Presidential
elections in Mexico, to prop up that Government. There were loans
made from this fund, $500 million, $1 billion. Then you went up
to 1988 when there was another Presidential election in Mexico,
and they used $1.1 or $1.2 billion out of the funds to prop up
the existing Government there.
Now the Presidential elections of this past August 1994: The fund
was used again over these numbers of years. Mexico has never
really paid back its money. It has refinanced its debt, which is
getting larger and larger and larger.
That is like if you had a credit card and you never paid the
principal and you just kept adding more and more debt and then
you were charged a higher interest rate.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
So if you would explain to the Members who might still be
watching, what is it that you are trying to accomplish tomorrow?
MS. KAPTUR:
What we are trying to accomplish tomorrow is to give the 435
Members of this House a chance to vote against the Mexican rescue
package. We have essentially been muzzled. The executive branch,
in conjunction with the leadership of this institution, went
around the other 434 Members of the Congress of the United
States.
We want our chance to vote.
MR. DeFAZIO:
Mr. Speaker, if the gentlewoman will continue to yield, I would
like to clarify, I think that we do not even have to characterize
it in exactly that fashion. We are asking the basic questions
regarding the extension of these credits to Mexico. How much
money is involved? What risks are there for the U.S. taxpayer?
And the series of interrogatories, someone could vote in support
of our resolution tomorrow, not having made up their mind but
saying as a representative of the people they need more
information.
So I would say that the Members who would support our resolution
would be both Members who already feel that they have enough
information to say no to the bailout for Mexico, but I would say
for the other Members of this body, I cannot imagine that any
single person in this body who has not had those questions
answered could vote in support of it.
I can see where you could still have an open mind and say, I
would like to know what risks we have, how much it is costing,
what the terms are, what our exposure is. But we do not have
that. So I would characterize the vote tomorrow a little
differently.
MS. KAPTUR:
The gentleman is correct. If one reads the resolution, it asks
for us to have the constitutional authority retained here as we
would hope we could tomorrow, and then it asks the Comptroller
General to report back on the specifics of the package that was
negotiated by the administration. I think the gentleman from
Mississippi would like to comment.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
I wanted to get back to something the gentleman from Vermont
mentioned, when he said that Wall Street was all in favor of
NAFTA and Wall Street was all in favor of the bailout.
In fact, former U.S. Trade Representative, Ms. Carla Hills, who
used to come regularly up to Congress and tell us what a great
deal NAFTA was, has written an article for the Washington Post
saying we have to bail out these poor people.
It was funny that just 1.5 years ago, when Ms. Hills came before
the Merchant Marine Committee and I brought to her attention that
a lot of shrimpers in the gulf coast, a lot of people in the
garment plants would probably lose their jobs as a result of
NAFTA, she said, "that is economic Darwinism. You just have to
have some people who are going to suffer when things like this
happen, but it is for the benefit of everybody that this
happens."
Would someone explain the wisdom to me why it is O.K. to let
somebody who makes $5.50 an hour working at a sewing machine all
day lose their job, but when some Wall Street investor loses a
couple of bucks on his investments down in Mexico, or maybe a lot
more than a couple bucks, that it suddenly becomes the
responsibility of the working people of this country, the very
same working people that you may have put out of work to bail
them out, to go on the line and cosign that loan? And above all,
why is it right that this huge expenditure, the equivalent of the
Veterans Administration budget, is being made available for the
President alone to spend and the Congress of the United States,
which is given the constitutional duty, not privilege but the
constitutional duty to see how our money is spent, what kind of
debts we incur, where is the Speaker? Where is the minority
leader? Is this not crazy that neither party's head is demanding
a vote on this and that 6, 7, 12 Members have to be the ones to
come forward and, by using the rules of the House, demand a vote
on this? It is just not right.
MS. KAPTUR:
It is interesting, because I come from the Midwest, midwestern
part of our country, as did the gentleman from Ohio, Congressman
Brown, who has joined us, the gentleman from Vermont, Congressman
Sanders, comes from the northeast, the gentleman comes from the
Deep South in Mississippi, the gentleman from Oregon, Mr.
DeFazio, it has been very interesting to me to see the breadth of
support inside this institution on this issue.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
If I may interrupt, on both sides of the aisle.
MS. KAPTUR:
On both sides of the aisle.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
There are, I believe as many Republican sponsors of this
resolution as Democrats. I think that is very important, because
I think a number of the Republicans are at odds with what their
leadership has done, which is, again, to deprive the majority of
the Members of this body just expressing this sentiment, yes or
no, this is a tremendous obligation.
I know it is more than three times the State budget for a whole
year of my home State.
MR. DeFAZIO:
If the gentlewoman would yield further, I was talking to a
freshman Republican Member today, and that freshman stated
unequivocally that they had done a whip of their own group and
there were 3 Members of the 73-Member Republican freshman class
who were prepared or leaning toward voting for the bailout of
Mexico.
So I think what has happened here is the leaders on both sides
can count, and they did count. When they counted, they found
probably out of this entire institution, the representatives of
the people of the United States of America, duly elected and all
equal under the Constitution, that probably less than 100 were
willing to vote for this bailout.
Now I guess what we are being told is we just do not know, we
just do not know the facts. Well, then, give us the facts. That
is what we are asking here. If there are facts that would change
my mind, bring them forward. But there is an absence of fact and
we are being treated as though we, as elected representatives of
the people, well, we just do not know better. This is something
that the big folks on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve decided in
secret, Robin Rubin, managing director of Goldman, Sachs and the
President behind closed doors, and public discussion is
foreclosed and votes of the people are prohibited.
MR. SANDERS:
My friend from Oregon is exactly right, as is my friend from
Mississippi.
My friend from Mississippi makes an interesting point, if he will
allow me to amplify his statement a little bit, that all over
this country there are people who work for $5 an hour and $6 an
hour and $8 an hour. And they go to work every day and many of
them do not have any health insurance, and we are told that the
Government does not have the money to provide health insurance.
Their jobs are uprooted and taken to Mexico or to China and we
are told, "Hey, that is the way life goes, that is what the
market system is about, no security, you are out on the street."
They pay unfairly too much in taxes, that is the way the system
goes.
And nobody is hearing their pain. And then suddenly our friends
from Wall Street, who by the way, let us be honest about this, in
the last few years have made out like bandits in their
investments in Mexico. In the city of Burlington, Vermont, people
put their money in the savings bank to make 3 percent, 4 percent,
5 percent, safe investment; in Mexico people were making 50
percent, people were making 100 percent of their investments. And
then suddenly, for reasons that we do not fully know, we know
some of them, the economy of Mexico took a tumble and their
investments went sour.
And how amazing it is, and I remember this when I was mayor of
the city of Burlington, it was not the poor people and the
working people who came into my office to ask for help. It was
always the powerful and the wealthy who tell us, "What can you do
for us?" and they are back again. These people who have the
money, who have made out like bandits, have suddenly taken a
loss.
Well, when you invest in a risky proposition, that is the nature
of the game, is it not? You stand to win a lot if things go well,
you stand to lose if things go badly.
I absolutely agree with my friend from Mississippi that it is an
outrage to go back to the working people in this country, some of
them who have lost their jobs from these very same folks who have
taken their plants to Mexico, and then to ask working people of
America to bail them out.
To pick up on the point from my friend from Oregon, what makes me
really sad is not only the horror of this whole agreement, but in
fact as a result of it there will be even more people giving up
on the democratic process. We just had an election recently and
62 percent of the people did not come out to vote. They no longer
believe that the Government of the United States represents their
interests. What do you think this action on the part of the
President is going to do to the political process?
[...to be continued...]
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THE MEXICAN RESCUE PACKAGE
[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1271-H1278, Feb. 6, 1995]
[...continued...]
MR. SANDERS [continues]:
You are standing up from Oregon, you are standing up from
Mississippi, you are standing up from Ohio, many of us are
standing up and the people are saying, "What difference does it
make? Thanks for standing up for us, but you don't have any
power. We send you here to represent us but you can't do anything
about it. Why do you want me to come out and vote for you or vote
for anybody else?"
I think one of the other aspects about this agreement which
disturbs me is not only the agreement itself, which we disagree
with, but the process which denies the elected officials of this
country to stand up and do what is best for their districts.
MS. KAPTUR:
Mr. Speaker, I think the gentleman raises some excellent,
excellent points. I know that there are working people across
this country who feel that they have lost voice at the highest
levels of our Government.
What is equally disturbing to think about, Mr. Speaker, is that
for the people of Mexico who have no voice, the working people of
Mexico who have no voice, if our Government, and I think they
were in cahoots with the top leaders of Mexico, has now caused
the standard of living in Mexico to be cut by half, and it wasn't
very high anyway, there are people who are hungry and there are
people who are streaming across our borders now because our
Government was too greedy for some of the interests that
supported it and some of the top leaders in the Government of the
United States, then shame on us as the most powerful economic
force on this continent.
I yield to the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Taylor], who
wanted to make a comment.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
The only point I wanted to make, Mr. Speaker, and I wanted to get
back as to the very eloquent delivery by the former mayor of
Burlington, could he not just vote against the appropriation for
this when it comes up?
MR. SANDERS:
If the gentleman knows, Mr. Speaker, if I had the opportunity to,
I could and I would, but I do not have the opportunity.
Unfortunately, as we have been discussing, we do not have that
opportunity.
MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
Mr. Speaker, isn't it interesting that every group -- there are
groups like the National Taxpayers Union, Common Cause, groups
that represent the defense industry, groups that represent the
homeless, everyone has a score card on how you voted. You hear
the Nation has incurred at least a $20 billion liability and
there was not even a vote on it, and there will not be a vote on
it next year or the following year or the following year, unless
something happens.
Mr. Speaker, I think the point all of us are trying to make, and
maybe not saying as well as we can, is that the reason we need
the information, the reason for the vote tomorrow morning, is
that, No. 1, we find out just how far our liability goes with
this; just what kind of assets, if any, the Mexicans have
pledged. I have heard they pledged oil revenues that have already
been pledged to pay other bills, so, therefore, they are really
not available to get our money back. What kind of track record do
the Mexicans have in paying things back? Where did this money
come from?
Isn't it interesting, Mr. Speaker, that while everything comes
before this body, from the amount of money we will have to mail
letters home to our constituents, the amount of money we will
spend on B-2 bombers, the amount of money we will spend on
housing and urban development, the amount of money we will spend
on veterans, all these things, sometimes much, much smaller
amounts dealing in just tens of thousands of dollars, we will get
an up-or-down vote on, but for $20 billion, neither the President
of the United States nor the Speaker of the House nor the
minority leader even thought we ought to have a vote. The only
chance we get to rectify that starts tomorrow.
MR. SANDERS:
If the gentlewoman will yield further, Mr. Speaker, the gentleman
makes a very important point. There almost seems to be an inverse
relationship between the amount of money that is being spent and
the level of discussion that takes place here.
We are seeing a whole lot of discussion on the National Council
on the Humanities and Public Broadcasting, right? Every day,
people are down here, some on one position, some on the other. It
is a matter of a few hundred million dollars.
What we are talking about is more than $20 billion, and as of
this moment, we do not have a vote on that, and that is clearly
an outrage.
MR. DeFAZIO:
If the gentleman will continue to yield, Mr. Speaker, in an
answer to the gentleman's earlier inquiry, there has not been a
vote on an appropriation for the Economic Stabilization Fund
since 1934, 60 years since an appropriation has been voted for,
yet the fund has continued to garner money through Treasury
withdrawals, through having money printed, and they exchange some
sort of bizarre notes which they obtain from the International
Monetary Fund. They give them to our Treasury in exchange for
dollars which the Treasury orders printed at the Mint.
If you want to talk about creating something out of nothing but
obligating the American people, and if Alan Greenspan is
concerned about inflation, how about the inflation that is caused
when you just run the presses overnight, running out whatever the
largest denomination of bills is, I don't know, a thousand
$10,000 bills, so we can shovel that money over to the Economic
Stabilization Fund, so we can send it to Mexico, or so that we
can secure the loans of Mexico?
Also, Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman put together an excellent list
in response to your query here. I have heard a little bit about
this "We will guarantee these funds with the oil revenues." There
is a list here put together by the gentlewoman from Ohio [Ms.
Kaptur].
The gentleman is right, those funds are already 100 percent
committed. In fact, they are so committed that the Mexican oil
company has not been able to invest any money in exploration or
maintenance, because their funds are so over committed already.
You go through the list: Pemex bonds, 7.75 percent; French
francs, $750 million; Euro notes, Pemex, 8.375; $400 million,
Austrian bond, dated July 23, 1993, due 1998. The list goes on
and on and on. They are already well in hock for any oil they can
pump until their supplies are exhausted, and we are going to take
security out of this? You can't get blood out of a turnip.
MS. KAPTUR:
If the gentleman will yield on that, Mr. Speaker, Oil and Gas
magazine also reported about that by the end of this decade, by
1997, 1998, 1999, Mexico will be a net importer of oil because
the number of barrels she has been able to produce has been cut
in half, and because capital investment has not been able to be
made in capital plant, and because of instability among the
workers in the oilfields in Mexico, where conditions are just
terrible.
Mr. Speaker, I think any wise investor would question that, oil
being used as collateral.
If I might respond to the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders],
who raised a good point, when it is a small item involving the
budget, we get tied up in knots here, right?
When we are talking about $20 or $40 billion or however much the
American people will be on the line, it is like the Stealth
bomber. It goes through here, nobody saw it, we didn't vote on
it. It happened, it is a happening in America, but we didn't have
anything to do with it.
Mr. Speaker, I remember when the President came up here with his
State of the Union speech. He didn't like the fact that the
Department of Agriculture had spent a few thousand dollars trying
to eliminate ticks. He spent a long time talking about ticks.
If you come from a rural area, a lot of my district is rural,
that can be a pretty significant problem for people. In fact, we
had one gentleman here in Congress, Berkeley Bedell, who had to
leave Congress because he got Lyme disease. If you know anything
about what can happen, it is a pretty serious area to be doing
research on, so I didn't quite understand why he picked that
particular few thousand dollar expenditure out.
Here we are talking about an enormous amount of money, and the
gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Taylor] said, "Could we vote on
it in the Committee on Appropriations?"
I asked one of the subcommittee chairs of Appropriations, "Will
this come up before your subcommittee this year? Will we get a
vote? How will we get a vote on this?"
He said, "Well, you know, yes, the Treasury Department is under
our sub-committee's jurisdiction, but this particular fund, I
guess it is more like foreign aid, so we don't think it would
come under us."
This is the kind of fund, it is like mercury. If you have ever
seen mercury and you try to put your finger on it, it keeps
moving around. You can't pin it down, really; $20 billion, maybe
$40 billion, and it is rising every day.
So here we stand, at 9 o'clock at night Washington time, trying
to say it is our responsibility to vote on this kind of money,
and putting our taxpayers at this kind of risk.
I yield to the gentleman from Mississippi.
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THE MEXICAN RESCUE PACKAGE
[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1271-H1278, Feb. 6, 1995]
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MR. TAYLOR of Mississippi:
Again, Mr. Speaker, I would like to point out that in the past
couple of weeks this chamber has taken some steps toward getting
our financial house in order.
Regardless of where you stand on it, the House has passed a line-
item veto. The Speaker as we speak is holding a press conference
bragging about how that is somehow going to save the House of
Representatives from itself, but we passed it.
A few weeks ago we passed the balanced budget amendment, which I
supported, because I think we have to be accountable. We passed
earlier on the first day a resolution calling for an audit of
every single House office and every single budget within the
House of Representatives.
But going back to what Mr. Sanders says, if it makes sense and
the Speaker will support an audit for a congressional office that
has a budget of about $600,000, don't you think he would support
an audit of a fund that has $35 billion in it; we think $35
billion, because no one really knows for sure, and it is the
taxpayers' money. It is not the Speaker's money, it is not the
money of the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders], and it is
certainly not my money.
But don't the taxpayers deserve to know where it came from, where
it is going, and don't they deserve an up-or-down vote of their
elected representative on how this money ought to be spent,
especially when our Nation's veterans are being told, "There is
not enough room in the military hospitals for you;" especially
when every university within short order in the continental
United States is going to get a letter saying "Don't ask for as
much money as you got last year, money is tight;" especially when
highway funds are getting ready to get cuts; especially when
everybody's State's budget, at least the money they receive from
the Federal Government, is going to get cut?
How on Earth can we say domestically we want all you people to
share in the pain, but if you are south of the Rio Grande, or if
you happen to be a big shot up on Wall Street, here is a blank
check for $20 billion, and here is $15 billion more when you need
it? And the vote tomorrow morning is the only chance the people
in this body are going to get to have an accounting on that.
I hope the Speaker will rule that this resolution is in order.
But if he does not rule it is in order, then we have got to
wonder whose side is he on. Is he on the side of accountability
or is he on the side of hiding all of this from the public?
I had an interesting call today from an Under Secretary of the
Treasury, and he will meet with a number of us tomorrow morning.
Interestingly enough, he said, "You know, I can't give you all
that information publicly." Why? I can understand a military
secret being kept from the public, we would not want our enemies
to know our capabilities of our weapons or troop strengths, but
why should not the public know how their money has been invested
and where it has been invested and what kind of return they have
on it, and what kind of promise we have to get this money back?
That troubles me. That is sort of like the old Washington
mentality, "We know it all and those folks back home don't know."
Tomorrow morning, the Members of this body will decide who they
are with, whether they think the people of America are smart
enough to know and ought to know where their money is coming
from, and where it is going, or whether they just think a couple
of guys, the Speaker, the President, the minority leader, a
couple of guys from the Treasury Department, whether they think
they alone ought to have the responsibility for $35 billion. That
is really what the vote tomorrow morning is all about.
No. 1, I would certainly encourage the Speaker to rule that this
resolution is in order so that we can have a vote on it. But, No.
2, if he decides that he will not rule it in order, then I think
he ought to at least be man enough to give us an hour to decide,
to make our pitch in front of the full body before any sort of a
motion is made to table it [i.e. kill it], because the people of
America deserve to know what in the heck is going on, and they
deserve an opportunity to fix this problem.
I want to thank the gentlewoman and both gentlemen for their
time.
MS. KAPTUR:
I want to thank the gentleman from Mississippi for being the lead
sponsor of this privileged resolution. The people of Mississippi
should be very proud of the gentleman, an independent, strong-
minded Member who stood up to the most powerful interests in
America, both political and economic.
In response to something the gentleman said, let me just mention
that I received a letter this week from a woman from Coral
Gables, Florida. She supports us in our efforts to get a vote on
this measure tomorrow. She sent this beautiful letter really
saying the people of America understand what is going on and
encouraging us in our efforts to get at the truth and to get the
figures for the American public.
But it was very interesting. She attached a letter to her letter
to me that had been written to her by the Chairman of the Banking
Committee in the House 2 years ago, Congressman Henry Gonzalez.
In this letter, and she even highlighted it in yellow ink for me,
she quotes some of his statements which I think are so
instructive I wanted to read them tonight, in which he said that
during NAFTA, the NAFTA debate, that he endeavored to bring out
that NAFTA was more than just a trade agreement. It is a free
trade and finance agreement. And he underlined finance. And he
was concerned that the finance and banking portions would turn
out to be the driving force, backed by the largest banks and
financial interests in this hemisphere. And he said NAFTA will
have profound implications for the safety and soundness of the
U.S. banking and financial services industries, the integrity of
the basic banking laws of this country and counteraction against
international money laundering.
Now that NAFTA has passed he said the stage may also be set for
another savings and loan style bailout as United States bankers
pursue risky investments in the unregulated Mexican market.
To his letter he then attached even more lengthy hearings that he
has held in his committee. I just want to read one paragraph here
by two gentlemen, Mr. Niko Valance and Mr. Andres Penaloza, who
testified before his committee that the omission of an exchange
rate stabilization mechanism in NAFTA was deliberate and a
mistake. Mr. Valance argued that without an established exchange
rate, stabilization mechanism, it is possible for foreign
corporations to exert pressure on the Mexican Government to
devalue the peso, thus lowering wages in terms of other
currencies.
In addition, Mr. Davidson cautions that the relatively volatile
currency in Mexico poses increased potential exchange and
interest rate risks to U.S. financial institutions. The fact that
these issues are not addressed in NAFTA was of considerable
concern to many of the witnesses.
MR. DeFAZIO:
If the gentlewoman will yield, it is interesting to hear those
statements from 2 years ago, because we have heard most recently
from the proponents of NAFTA, the apologists for NAFTA, the
Secretary of the Treasury and others, that no one could have
anticipated the circumstances. But yet the gentlewoman is saying
that letter from the chairman of the Banking Committee, a
neighbor to Mexico who lives just over the border, who
understands that country well and is sympathetic to the needs of
that country, he discerned these problems. What was the date on
that letter?
MS. KAPTUR:
The date on the letter was December 6, 1993, but the respective
sections from the *Congressional Record* were dated November 15,
1993, remarks by Mr. Gonzalez on NAFTA, page H9661.
MR. DeFAZIO:
That is absolutely extraordinary. So perhaps a rational person
could have anticipated that the peso was overvalued, that there
were problems with political manipulations of the currency values
in Mexico, and, in fact, that inextricably tying the fate of our
economy to Mexico, which seems to be what our administration is
telling us, was a mistake.
I would ask the gentlewoman if she noticed the statement in the
Washington Post last weekend where the Speaker said there was a
relationship between the minimum wage and the value of the peso
in Mexico and Mexican workers, and said he was hesitant to
support an increase in the minimum wage in the United States of
America for people who work in this country because that would
probably drive more jobs across the border.
So we have seen the value of the wages in Mexico, which were
pitiful to begin with compared to U.S. wages, dropped by 50
percent, and now we have to withhold any increase in the standard
of living for the people of the United States because we might
lose yet more manufacturing jobs to Mexico.
What happened to the promise of hundreds of thousands of jobs in
America as we sold goods to the Mexican people? I am puzzled.
[...to be continued...]
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AMERICANS IN EXILE
February 1, 1995
[Excerpts]
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women
rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee
to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."
-- Isaiah 3:12
-+- Cultivating Hatred in the American Family -+-
What is commonly referred to as a "gender war", a division so
deep that it destroys families, is no accident. This poison in
our culture is actually the result of policies instituted to
achieve division, with techniques perfected over the years, in
many different countries. They are policies of the U.S.
government enacted into law to come into compliance with United
Nations mandates. Most Americans are not aware that such laws
exist. How many are familiar with *The Gender Equity in Education
Act* (1993) or how it conforms to *The United Nations Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women*?
Americans understand even less about the web of deception that
has been woven by those in the leadership of this cause as
expressed in the American news media. It's difficult to explain
how propaganda has been so successful in persuading Americans
that the traditional role of wife and mother is oppressive to
women. In a nation as great as America once was, where women were
respected, provided for, and sheltered from any danger that might
interfere with their right to raise their children in freedom and
safety, feminism is a truly magnificent hoax.
The solution to this puzzle is not where one would instinctively
look. The key to understanding what has happened to America is to
see how feminists have successfully manipulated the natural
inclinations of men and women. Men will shelter and protect
women, even from the truth, if they believe women will find it
offensive. Women are inclined to follow men who will provide for
them and lead aggressively. Thus we have our present dilemma; a
Marxist version of American history of oppression of women,
resulting in laws and policies that attack men and destroy
families, and men won't criticize them.
An open minded consideration of explanations that might, at
first, seem a contradiction is necessary. There are a number of
ideas that have been planted in peoples' minds that must be re-
examined. The fact that American men are socialized to protect
and shelter women is the very reason that men will not respond to
charges that they oppress women, but grope further to find out
what women want. Ironically, this phenomenon is precisely what
has turned women away from men. Women expect men to get them out
of this, to stand up for their wives and children and for their
own place as providers, protectors, and moral leaders of the
family. Thus far women have been betrayed by the insecurity of
American men.
They have had little choice in that the only men offering
security are those attacking the family, offering women
preference for jobs and protection from their husbands. Feminism
is not independence for women but dependence on men who can
provide, men like Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, and Bill Clinton. Women
have little respect for defeated men, particularly when they
won't fight. A sad fact of warfare is that only males are
vanquished; women survive as best they can, often as consorts of
the victors.
Men who have watched government cross their threshhold, offering
wives protection from their husbands and special privileges for
jobs that destroy a man's God given role as provider and
protector, and can only respond by trying to please women, are a
pathetic sight. These men are, of course, confused. They are not
prepared for a government that would actually conspire to destroy
their families. Many will find it difficult to accept. It seems
so far fetched. All that is necessary is to face certain obvious
facts.
Look at this from pure reason, without the blind spots of
culture, sexual attraction and hormones, and it becomes clear.
The history of women in America that is fed to us by the ruling
elite and the press is a pack of lies. Women in America were
given by men the highest civilization ever known. We can only
hope to recover that greatness as long as there are Americans old
enough to remember a way of life that has been stolen from us and
are able to look critically at Marxist slogans such as "women
earn 71 percent of what men earn" or "today women have to work",
neither of which is true.
[...]
It has taken years of carefully formulated propaganda to
manipulate an unsuspecting public into accepting the Marxist
position that husbands and fathers are oppressors. The concept
that marriage is oppressive to women is Marxist. The U.N. plan,
as is written in the *Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women*, is to drastically alter
something that really made America what it was, the American
family. We are faced with a powerful, global elite that presumes
to be a purveyor of proper attitudes, culture, and of correct
roles for men, women, and children in society. They are
determined to bring us around, with propaganda, with professional
Marxist methods of agitation, and with laws.
This surely is a perfect hoax. It leaves men with a choice of
either telling the truth and risk alienating women -- or
submitting to something that is clearly wrong. It leaves women
with only the enemy to turn to. Most women would give anything to
restore America to what it once was. The plan is proceeding, and
it is not the complaints of ordinary women seeking "equality",
but a United Nations mandate, Federal legislation, laws that
Americans know little about, but that reach into homes and
families, places where Americans have always understood
government had no business. Feminist legislation has altered our
school system, destroyed families, left children without fathers,
put innocent men in jail, and made it impossible for men and
women to relate with the mutual respect that once existed between
them.
Affirmative Action, a program of special rights for special
citizens, is perhaps the most devastating of all feminist
policies. Most commonly thought of as a racial policy, it
benefits mostly women, 51 percent of the U.S. population. Many
upper-class graduates of Smith College, Radcliffe, or Vassar are
official victims according to this policy. Its goals, of course,
are not fairness or equality, but intervention in families.
According to the Marxist belief system, marriage in itself is
discrimination against women. Preference for jobs is intended as
an alternative to dependency on a "white male".
...No one is suggesting women can't work or use all of their
talents and abilities. *What* *must* *be* *opposed* *is*
*preference* for and the recruitment of women to achieve a
distribution in the workforce that satisfies feminists and the
United Nations. We must oppose the Marxist belief that marriage
is an oppressive institution and their diabolical, persistent,
determination to offer women a way out.
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THE MEXICAN RESCUE PACKAGE
[From The Congressional Record -- House, H1271-H1278, Feb. 6, 1995]
[...continued...]
MR. SANDERS:
Mr. Speaker, if the gentlewoman will yield, in Sunday's
Washington Post Raul Avila, president of the National Maquiladora
Industry Council, said that during the first 10 months of 1994
maquiladora employment increased 6.2 percent, over 600,000
employees, and importantly enough, as the gentlewoman has just
indicated, "The industry forecasts the opening of another 600
assembly plants this year."
MR. DeFAZIO:
If the gentlewoman will yield, that, I believe, was because of
the drop in the value of the peso.
MR. SANDERS:
The gentleman is exactly right. With cheaper labor it becomes a
better investment in the maquiladoras, and we can expect more
American companies to be going down there.
The gentleman and the gentlewoman raised interesting points a
while ago. I am a member of the Banking Committee that dealt with
the S&L fiasco, and as my colleagues will recall the concept "too
big to fail." Do my colleagues remember that concept? What too
big to fail means is that the taxpayers of America were obligated
to bail out very, very large banks because if they failed, the
repercussions of that failure were supposedly so great that it
would have been worse than bailing them out.
I would like my colleagues to comment on this thought. It seems
to me that that is precisely what is happening with regard to
Mexico. We are now asked, well, not asked, but the President is
proposing to put $40 billion of loan guarantees into Mexico.
Maybe the President is right and we do not know. Maybe, in fact,
this will improve the Mexican economy, everything will work out
well, and there will not be a loss of taxpayer money. That may be
true.
But let us look at the other side of the story. Maybe in fact the
Mexican economy will not improve and we will lose that $40
billion. What I would like to ask my colleagues is this: Is it
not possible that a year from now or 2 years from now a President
will come back and say we have got to provide even more loan
guarantees to Mexico because we already have $40 billion in the
hopper there; we cannot afford to lose that. We have to protect
that investment and, therefore, we need to put even more money
into Mexico?
And I think the implications of that are very, very frightening.
This Congress and this President are having a difficult enough
time running the American economy that we know something about on
behalf of American workers. We are not doing very well at that.
The idea that we have the knowledge or the ability to sustain the
Mexican economy, upon which we are dependent, is really quite
beyond me.
But I am afraid that we are going to have this too-big-to-fail
concept once again. Then we are going to have to pump more and
more money into Mexico, because if it fails, then we have lost
all the money we put into them last year.
MR. DeFAZIO:
I guess to bring it down to something smaller than billions, I
think I heard very early on in my life and the old saw, you know,
"If you owe the bank $1,000 and you cannot pay, you have got a
problem. If you owe the bank $100,000 and you cannot pay, the
bank has got a problem." That is where we are at here.
It is not only ultimately an obligation of the economic
stabilization fund, and it does occur in here that losses can be
incurred, and those losses would have to be made up, but also the
interest earnings, gains or losses of the economic stabilization
fund are reflected in the budget of the United States of America.
So if the economic stabilization fund loans to Mexico, $20
billion or so to Mexico go bad, then suddenly we are told that
not only do we have to come up with the money but that counts as
$20 billion more deficit for the United States of America.
MS. KAPTUR:
On that point, if you look at what we are spending on as a
Nation, the very first set of categories have to do with Social
Security, and especially Medicare, the cost that the taxpayers
subsidize Medicare. Defense is a large expenditure. Then comes
interest rates. Right after that, the fourth largest category of
spending in this Government is to pay the interest on the savings
and loan bailout which totals over $1 trillion. Our children's
children will be paying for that.
So when we get in these debt financing arrangements, what we are
talking about is obligating the people of our country so far down
the road you can hardly even see the end of it.
But in this situation with Mexico, we are not talking about money
we owe to ourselves. We are talking about money that is owed to
investors and creditors to foreign nations. This is a very
different animal than that exchange stabilization fund was meant
to be used for in the past.
I think what we are seeing is a different form of foreign aid,
which does not have to be voted on here in the Congress, and that
is not how a democracy should function or a democratic republic
should function. We should have the debate here. We as a people
must make a decision about what our relationship is to various
countries around the world.
MR. SANDERS:
My recollection -- and help me out here -- is that foreign aid
that we do vote on is about what, $15 or $16 billion?
MS. KAPTUR:
That is right.
MR. SANDERS:
There is a lot of debate. Many people throughout this country
think that is too much.
MS. KAPTUR:
Half of that is weapons.
MR. SANDERS:
All right. What we should appreciate is that this loan guarantee
to Mexico puts us at risk for over double what our entire foreign
aid package is today. Is that correct?
MS. KAPTUR:
That is correct. The gentleman is correct. I kept listening to
the President when he said, "Oh, this is not anything serious.
This is just cosigning a loan." I would say to the gentleman from
Oregon and the gentleman from Vermont what if someone came up to
you and said, "Would you sign a loan with me for $50,000? Right
now, sign it?"
MR. SANDERS:
For you, Ms. Kaptur, absolutely
MS. KAPTUR:
But maybe you do not know what my finances are like. I mean,
would you not want to know the credit history of that person,
what kind of assets the person had? And there is absolutely a
risk that something might go wrong. Cosigning the loan does not
absolve risk.
MR. SANDERS:
I was on a national television program the other day and one of
the proponents of this bailout was saying, well, the Mexican
economy is basically in good shape; they are having a short-term
cash flow problem. But basically it is strong. One of my
colleagues here talked about the national debt of Mexico. Is, in
fact, the Mexican economy strong and stable?
MS. KAPTUR:
The Mexican economy is not strong and stable, and the nation is
not politically stable, which is why there is all of this moving
up and down of the value of the peso. Mexico owes somewhere
between $160 and $200 billion. That is with a "b". That is in
public debt that is owed to other creditors. This is only one
small piece of it. This is probably the piece that they thought
they might be able to bite off without too many people
disagreeing, but there is a lot more money owed, and then inside
Mexico, because of the strange relationship between their private
sector and their public sector and their banks, there are all
kinds of debts internal to Mexico, and with interest rates going
up there and with the inflation rates going up, it is a very
unstable economic situation inside of Mexico.
The value of their money has just been cut in half. Lots of
businesses there have loans. The relationship of those businesses
to their banks, to the inflation rate, et cetera, is a very
unstable situation, and the largest revenue generator to the
Government is Pemex, the oil company.
Over, I think, nearly half the revenues of that Government are
generated by Pemex, so that is another place that the oil
revenues are pledged as collateral to their own Government.
I happen to believe that Mexico's main problems are not economic
but, rather, social and political; in other words, if you could
get a system there that operated in a more democratic fashion,
could you begin to put the pieces in place of an economic order
that shared the wealth with the vast majority of people rather
than just a few people on top.
MR. SANDERS:
The main point I wanted to make very briefly is that it is not
for sure that this $40 billion loan guarantee is without
significant risk, and that is the main point I wanted to make.
MS. KAPTUR:
It is absolutely with significant risk.
MR. DeFAZIO:
I think this was a question I asked very early on when I was
contacted, when I filed my legislation to withdraw from NAFTA.
They brought up all of these concerns about how it would further
destabilize the economic situation. They said we are only
cosigning, and I said, well, I understood if someone had
impeccable credit they would not need a cosigner. Usually you
want a cosigner because no one else wants to extend you credit,
and they think maybe you would not be good for it. If Mexico's
credit is so great, I suggest they go to the same Wall Street
financiers who have made 20- to 50-percent interest, nice rate of
return, and perhaps say, "Look, you have been making a lot of
money down in Mexico, how about extending some loans on favorable
terms, maybe only 15-20 percent interest per year as opposed to
what we have been paying you, still better than you can get
generally in the United States stock market, S&P index, United
States Treasury, better than you can get anywhere else."
I would assume the Wall Street financiers, thinking there is no
problem, if they want the Government to cosign, why do not they
just do it directly? Why do not they do it themselves? They are
telling us we will make money on this. The taxpayers might make
money on it. Might lose $40 billion on it, but, this is a river
boat gamble. We are river boat gamblers with $40 billion of
assets of the United States of America that belong to the people
of this country. I do not think so. That is not our role here.
Let the people on Wall Street be the river boat gamblers, not the
people on Main Street.
MS. KAPTUR:
I am telling you, if those people on Wall Street and in the banks
around this country made as risky investments as this group did
down in Mexico, our entire banking system would be in a state of
collapse.
MR. SANDERS:
Essentially what we want is two things. We need far more
information about this bailout and, second of all, and most
importantly, we want the U.S. Congress, which presumably was
elected to represent the American people, to be able to vote this
thing up or down, and in my view, the Congress would vote it
down.
Now, I think if the American people are upset about this process,
it is terribly important that they stand up, they tell the
President and the Republican leadership that they understand what
is going on, that they want a vote on the floor of the House,
they want the Members of Congress to represent their interest and
not put $40 billion at risk.
So we hope very much that the people will stand up, fight back,
and start calling their Members of Congress, the President's
office, and the leadership to demand a vote on this important
issue.
MS. KAPTUR:
I want to thank the gentleman from Vermont [Mr. Sanders] for
joining us this evening, the gentleman from Oregon [Mr. DeFazio],
the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Taylor], and the gentleman
from Ohio [Mr. Brown].
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*USA Today*, Feb. 8, 1995, very tiny item: Mexico Plan Foes Fail:
Opponents of President Clinton's $20 billion rescue plan for
Mexico's embattled peso failed to dramatize their opposition
through a resolution seeking to reassert Congressional authority
over government spending. Critics lost a 288-143 floor vote that
would have allowed debate on the matter. -- Juan J. Waite.
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*Washington Times*, National Weekly Edition, Feb. 20-26, 1995:
House will debate peso bailout: In a sharp reversal, House
Republican leaders will accede to demands from GOP freshman [and
others] and allow full floor debate on President Clinton's $47.5
billion bailout plan, which bypassed Congress.
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*NBC News*, Bill Moyers commentary, Feb. 21, 1995 -- a good
commentary in which Moyers asks good questions about the bailout.
But notice that the commentary and the questions arrive after the
thing is already a *fait accompli*.
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I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
Behind the scenes, a fight has broken out between U.S. Treasury
and the Justice Department.
Under Clinton, Justice has retained a large percentage of Bush
appointees. Justice, however, is determined to cover up several
crimes committed jointly by Clinton, Bush, and Ollie North. An
example is the dope smuggling through the airport at Mena,
Arkansas. The dope money has been laundered through Arkansas
banks and through ones in Chicago, such as Garfield Ridge Trust
and Savings Bank, owned and operated by former congressman Dan
Rostenkowski and their gang.
Also acting as a dope money laundry has been the highly corrupt,
highly political, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board
of Trade, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
On the other hand, long-time career employees of the Treasury are
*determined* to bring out in the open crimes committed by
Democrats as well as [by] Republican hot-shots.
ITEM: The Treasury is aware that Clinton has tens of millions of
narco-dollars deposited in Swiss and other banks under the code
name, "Chelsea Jefferson" -- "Chelsea" being his daughter's name,
and "Jefferson" being his middle name. The Treasury has other
code names and numbers as well, and amounts -- all traced back to
the Columbian dope connection.
Aware of all this, so-called "new" Democrats want Clinton to
quickly resign. The GOP, on the other hand, wants to use Clinton
as a scandal-ridden punching bag over several months. The big-
money crowd will decide when to throw "Sludge Willy" to the wall.
Can Clinton deal with the growing crisis of currency, huh!? The
Mexican peso debacle as well as the money crash in Spain, Sweden,
Brazil, and Argentina. The news fakers kept urging know-nothings
to invest in so-called "emerging markets" outside the U.S. They
should be called "*submerging* markets". Clinton is too much of a
wimp to deal with a run on the mutual funds in the wake of the
foreign currency crash.
Justice is trying to *block* the Treasury Department from
bringing out in the open the "China White" scandal, the high-
purity heroin pouring in and flooding in from China through
Joliet, just south of Chicago. Reportedly implicated are former
Illinois Governor Jim Thompson [a.k.a. "Big Jim"] and his gang.
He's now chairman of the world-wide, Chicago-based law firm of
Winston and Strawn. Treasury claims that "Big Jim's" law firm is
being used to coordinate *huge* "China White" shipments -- all to
bail out the Rockefeller banks, such as the First National Bank
of Chicago that loaned billions of dollars to deadbeat China.
("Big Jim" all along has been a Rockefeller agent.)
Three partners of the law firm and eight support staff confirm:
internal documents tend to incriminate "Big Jim" and his gang,
and his puppet, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar [a.k.a. "Little
Jim"].
Both the Treasury Department and the Justice Department are
nervous about the secret transfer of a $50 million contingency
fund of Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC]. It was sent, from
Chicago to Little Rock, to cover up $47 million reportedly
embezzled from a Little Rock savings and loan by Clinton and his
wife. Interwoven in the transfer details is the murder of White
House aide Vincent Foster, jr. He and Hillary worked crooked
savings and loan bailout deals in the Chicago area for RTC --
which is headquartered here *inside* the law firm of Hopkins and
Sutter.
In the Treasury/Justice Department fight, you can expect more
bodies to fall off of buildings, such as happened to a senior
investigator expert of the Resolution Trust Corporation. He
wanted to go further into the Clinton White House scandals.
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
(312) 731-1100 is our main message. Donations appreciated.
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THE ANDREUCCETTI AFFAIR
=======================
[...continued...]
[CN -- I am jumping ahead here, due to late breaking events of
which I have just been informed.]
[CN -- Note also that I neither necessarily believe nor
disbelieve either all or portions of the following. I am merely a
journalist in this matter. I am willing to post replies of
reasonable length from responsible parties.]
RECEIVED: Feb. 21, 1995
United States District Court
Northern District of Illinois
Eastern Division
Mark Sato, et al., plaintiffs )
) No. 92 C 7048
vs. )
) Judge Wayne Andersen
Shirley Peterson, et al., defendants ) Magistrate Joan Lefkow
Notice of Motion
Please be informed that on February 21, 1995, the undersigned
filed with the Clerk of the above Court, and will present the
same on April 20, 1995, at 10 a.m., before Magistrate Joan H.
Lefkow, or any Magistrate or Judge sitting in her place and
stead, in the Dirksen Federal Building, 219 So. Dearborn St.,
Chicago, IL 60604, the attached Motion for Leave with Further
Amendments thereto attached of Second AMENDED Verified Complaint,
and supporting Verification, and Verification set out below, all
herewith served upon you.
Since the Magistrate stated on February 16, 1995, that she would
rule by mail on pending motions for leave, it may not be
necessary for these plaintiffs to present the attached Motion on
the said April 20, 1995.
(signed) Joseph Andreuccetti
(signed) Sherman H. Skolnick
Verification including Proof of Service
The undersigned does hereby certify under the provisions of 28
U.S.CA. Sec. 1746, as follows:
1. That the matters stated in the attached Motion for Leave are
true and correct to his personal knowledge or are matters of
record or of law, and in either case, are true.
2. That he caused a copy of this Verification, Notice of Motion
above, attached Motion for Leave with Further Amendments thereto
attached, and Verification in Support, to be served on those
above named [CN -- Christine A. Grant, Eileen Marutzky, Senator
Orrin Hatch, and others named in the document in my possession],
at addresses there shown, by sending them each a copy in duly
addressed, sealed, and stamped envelopes, and depositing in U.S.
Mail Box on February 21, 1995.
Executed on February 21, 1995.
(signed) Joseph Andreuccetti
Motion for Leave to File Further Amendments to Second
Amended Verified Complaint, with Further Amendments Attached
[CN -- As noted, I am skipping ahead. I hope to soon post the
original complaint.]
Comes now Joseph Andreuccetti and Sherman H. Skolnick,
plaintiffs, pro se, and move the Court for an Order granting them
leave to file further amendments to Second Amended Verified
Complaint, and for grounds state:
1. As shown in attached further amendments, certain events
occurred since the events stated in Second Amended Verified
Complaint, and since the Amendments thereto, which should be
included therein.
2. Said further amendments are attached hereto and made a part
hereof.
3. Said plaintiffs ask for leave as aforesaid.
(signed) Joseph Andreuccetti, plaintiff, pro se
(signed) Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiff, pro se
Further Amendments to Second Amended Verified Complaint
Plaintiffs, pro se, Joseph Andreuccetti and Sherman H. Skolnick
add the following to Count Three, following paragraph 29:
29D. That on February 16, 1995, at or about 10 a.m., there was a
hearing in the instant case before Magistrate Judge Joan H.
Lefkow. Present were: plaintiffs Sherman H. Skolnick, Joseph
Andreuccetti, Robert E. Cleveland, Mark Sato, and Gerald H.
Parshall, Jr., with Parshall representing the defendants;
Parshall being from the United States Department of Justice, Tax
Division, Trial Attorney, Washington, D.C.
29E. After said hearing, in the hallway outside Courtroom 1858,
present were: Skolnick, Andreuccetti, Sato, and Cleveland, and
Parshall. Parshall stated to plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti
as follows:
(a) Parshall said he was going to go to Chief Bankruptcy Judge
John D. Schwartz to tell him that plaintiffs Skolnick and
Andreuccetti have made serious accusations against Schwartz, the
same as in Count One, paragraph 13, adopted here by reference as
if verbatim herein set forth, meaning to be understood by
Parshall on behalf of defendants herein and was so understood by
plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti as follows:
(1) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are going to
seek to force, compel, and coerce Judge Schwartz to mis-use his
federal judicial power and authority, to threaten plaintiffs
Skolnick and Andreuccetti with contempt and jail, to silence said
plaintiffs and intimidate them into withdrawing and nullifying
said paragraph 13 of Count One;
[CN -- Paragraph 13 of Count One: "By words and statements,
she {CN -- Lynette Redmer, connected in some capacity with
the IRS, Criminal Investigations Division} confirmed that she
recognized that Chief Bankruptcy Judge John D. Schwartz, in
Joe's {CN -- Andreuccetti's} long-standing case, was highly
corrupt. She did not deny or dispute that Judge Schwartz has
a net worth of 140 million dollars and has not filed a proper
federal tax return in thirty years. She cautioned Skolnick
that it was improper for him, 'to have those records,' of her
agency.]
(2) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are threatening
to damage plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti, in their persons,
properties, and liberties, if said plaintiffs repeat said serious
accusations on the Cable Television Show "Broadsides", in which
Skolnick is a regular panel commentator and Andreuccetti from
time to time assists the same;
(3) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are threatening
to damage plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti, in their persons,
properties, and liberties, by way of a Justice Department cover
up of the 50 million dollar transfer of Resolution Trust
Corporation funds, parked with Household International; that is,
the clandestine transfer of said funds to Little Rock, Arkansas,
to cover up the embezzlement and mis-appropriation of some 47
million dollars from a federally insured Savings and Loan in
Arkansas, for which a federal grand jury is considering federal
criminal indictments against Hillary Rodham Clinton and William
Jefferson Clinton, respectively First Lady and President of the
U.S.; further, the clandestine transfer from Little Rock with the
assistance of Fuji Bank, to the Cayman Islands and from there to
a purported clandestine account with the purported code Chelsea
Jefferson in Switzerland; related to Count One herein, paragraph
18, adopted here by reference as if verbatim herein set forth;
(4) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are threatening
to damage plaintiff Andreuccetti in his person, property, and
liberty, for him having filed a form 211 of IRS, attached to
Second Amended Verified Complaint and adopted here by reference
as if verbatim herein set forth;
(5) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are threatening
to damage plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti in their persons,
properties, and liberties, in that defendants perceive that these
plaintiffs caused the matters of Judge Schwartz, the clandestine
transfer of RTC funds as aforesaid, on which Andreuccetti has a
long-pending claim, and related IRS and Justice Department
corruption, to be circulated and distributed worldwide on the
information superhighway known as Internet; that these matters
appeared on Internet just prior to the said February 16, 1995
hearing before Magistrate Lefkow at which Parshall was present on
behalf of the IRS, the Justice Department, and other entities,
official and unofficial, all of which have an interest to silence
and damage these plaintiffs under the pretense of federal
authority, damaging these plaintiffs in their persons,
properties, and liberties;
(6) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are seeking to
damage plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti in their persons,
properties, and liberties, in that defendants have the data to
blackmail Judge John D. Schwartz to so damage these plaintiffs;
in that Schwartz, as known to the defendants, is corruptly linked
and implicated with the nefarious and corrupt acts and doings of
Household International, Pinnacle Banc Group, as the successor
and alter ego of the criminal enterprises known as Bank of Credit
and Commerce International, First Midwest Bank, Bishop Paul
Marcinkus, previously head of Vatican Bank and principal force
behind Andreuccetti's tormentor First National Bank of Cicero now
Pinnacle Banc Group, and Marcinkus having as his godson and or
nephew Christian Henning, Jr., who falsely alleged he was
Andreuccetti's business partner;
(7) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, know full well
that Judge Schwartz is pliable and blackmailable by the
defendants and could easily be compelled, coerced, and activated
to jail plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti; defendants knowing
full well Schwartz is implicated in RTC secret fund transfer.
(8) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, are conveying
to plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti that the power of the
Justice Department stands against said plaintiffs; that the
Justice Department and the defendants could allow, permit,
condone, and acquiesce in bodily harm and other damage to be
inflicted on plaintiffs and that nothing could or would be done
against the perpetrators; similar to the defendants and the
Justice Department covering up and suppressing that the senior
investigation specialist of the RTC, knowledgeable about the
aforesaid 50 million dollar clandestine transfer, Jon Parnell
Walker, was suicided, that is, murdered, and the Justice
Department and the defendants have arranged that nothing be done
to investigate the matter, up to the time of the appointment of
the Independent Counsel; that the corruption of Judge Schwartz is
linked to the secret transfer of 50 million dollars of RTC, as
aforesaid, to try to keep Clinton and his wife from jail; that
the corruption of Judge Schwartz is linked to Justice Department
corruption in the INSLAW Affair where more than 41 witnesses were
murdered while the matter was about to commence and/or pending
before a Special Federal Grand Jury in Chicago; that Skolnick as
a federal grand jury witness complained of said murders in a
civil suit to no avail, with the Justice Department defendants
covering up the same.
(9) That the defendants, by and through Parshall, meant it to be
understood and it was so understood by plaintiffs Skolnick and
Andreuccetti, that these plaintiffs should shut their mouths and
watch what they are saying in and out of Court; in that as known
to the defendants and the Justice Department, there is a secret
unit there that carries out domestic and foreign political
murders; as INSLAW contends.
[...to be continued...]
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
Some very clever folks put together some super-duper computer
software. The company was called INSLAW, and their software,
called PROMIS, was designed, originally, to track the caseload of
federal prosecutors.
The Justice Department was one of their most important customers.
At the time, the head of the Justice Department was Edwin Meese.
And, he had a *better* idea. Feeling "above the law", he and his
cronies *stole* the software and used it without paying! So it
ended up, for example, running the FBI office in Chicago.
Meese and Reagan needed to reward some folks who helped torpedo
Jimmy Carter's Presidential re-election bid in 1980. To make
Carter seem like a wimp, they arranged to delay the release of
the American hostages in Iran. The whole dirty, treasonous mess
is called, "The October Surprise".
The PROMIS software was also ideal to track people, worldwide, by
satellite. So, the October Surprise conspirators sold, or gave
it, to intelligence agencies: Sweden, Iraq, Israel, France, and
others.
Deprived of their product, and their income, the INSLAW company
went into bankruptcy. The bankruptcy court judge, after extensive
hearings, ruled the Justice Department big-shots had used fraud
and deceit to steal the software. A district court judge upheld
the verdict. A federal appeals panel, however, made a highly
corrupt ruling that the bankruptcy judge lacked jurisdiction!
*Oh*, *yeah*!? As a result, the Justice Department arranged to
have the bankruptcy judge removed from the bench!
Along the way, INSLAW's attorneys put into official record that
they had uncovered data -- now get this -- showing the Justice
Department had a secret unit that committed domestic and foreign
political murders.
While a Chicago special federal grand jury was *also*
investigating the INSLAW affair, 41 grand jury witnesses were
murdered! Some of *our* group [CCCC] were also set to be
witnesses, and we complained about all this in a federal court
civil suit, to *no* *avail*. The trail is long, and highly
complicated. Our [CCCC] chairman interviewed a key official here
of the IRS who *admitted* there was high-level corruption in
related matters in the IRS and the Justice Department. That
interview became part of pending federal litigation.
So what happened? Well, from Washington the Justice Department
flew in one of their honchos to repeatedly threaten us in the
hallway, outside a federal courtroom. The details are now a
matter of court record [CN -- e.g., see CN4-11 and ongoing]. And
the meaning of it all is, we are threatened by the corrupt
Justice Department with jail for contempt, and bodily harm! All
for telling the truth here and on our popular Monday evening
weekly cable TV show.
No, there is no one in authority to complain to. It's a totally
corrupt situation. Our court of last resort is the public.
Ordinarily, we "play down" situations that put us in personal
jeopardy. But this is an emergency, created by the Justice
Department and their corruption.
The threats against us were outside the courtroom of U.S.
Magistrate Joan Lefkow, [who is] considering our case accusing
top officials of corruption. She's being blackmailed by the
Justice Department and the IRS to torpedo our case. Why? Because
she has recently been appointed to a lifetime position as federal
district judge, and the crooked IRS and the Justice Department
have the power and the clout to wreck her appointment before she
is confirmed.
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "What the Dope Business is Really All About".
(312) 731-1505.
New message Monday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
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[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
So what is the dope business all about, huh? The news fakers
emphasize small-time junkies in federal court. Major [drug]
traffickers are seldom if ever mentioned.
ITEM: Large quantities of marijuana come into the Calumet region,
for distribution nationwide, in railroad boxcars originating in
Mexico -- supposedly with auto parts for Ford Motors' assembly
plant in South Chicago and near Chicago Heights. The boxcar seals
are broken, indicating tampering, and reeking of what law
enforcement calls "Mary Jane". The federal and local narcotics
police have been corrupted and/or are fearful of being dumped in
the canal if they interfere with this high-level, federal
government-protected operation.
ITEM: Related airplane traffic reportedly comes and goes from
south suburban Lansing airport, and the one in Joliet, and far-
north suburban Pewaukee Airport. Also, nearby truck traffic is
related. The DEA [Drug Enforcement Agency] and the FAA [Federal
Aviation Administration] have auditioned for the part of "the
three monkeys" -- they don't see, hear, or know anything!
ITEM: A wholesale meat supply outfit in the Calumet region
reportedly brings in narcotics by truck in the middle of the
night! The money proceeds are reportedly "washed" through a chain
of fast food spots. Also reportedly suspected of laundering the
dope loot is Mercantile National Bank of Indiana, headquartered
in Hammond, the chain of banks called First Midwest, and
Household International and their units, Household Bank. The bank
regulator fakers are well-aware of all this, but *they* play the
part of "the three monkeys".
ITEM: Most of the petty doper cases are heard in Chicago's
federal courts: the U.S. District Court and the Federal Appeals
Court here, seventh circuit, covering Wisconsin, Indiana, and
Illinois. Many of the judges in these courts are financially
interlocked with Continental Bank, now part of Bank America. For
decades and decades, both banks have been a front for
"laundering" criminal enterprises. For many years, the Mafia-
Vatican-CIA bank owned a chunk of both bank rackets. Now, the
huge Japanese Mafia, the Yakusa, owns Bank America and their
unit, Continental Bank. Also, the authors of a book entitled
*Yakusa* contend [that] half of all the new buildings [in]
downtown Chicago are secretly owned by the Japanese underworld.
Also, reportedly, the Fairmont Hotel here.
ITEM: In November '94, on our cable TV show, we did an exclusive
one-hour presentation on "The CIA and the Dope Business",
relating to "China White", the high-purity narcotic flooding into
the united States by way of Joliet, just south of Chicago. The
dope smuggling is reportedly orchestrated by Rockefeller's long-
time agent, Jim Thompson [a.k.a. "Big Jim"], former Illinois
Governor and later, chairman of the worldwide law factory called
"Winston & Strawn". Three law partners and eight support staff
have, off the record, confirmed to us that our TV show was true
and correct.
ITEM: In a related matter, one Winston & Strawn former partner,
Chester Nozel(sp?), is trying to dissolve the Winston & Strawn
firm. However, a judge in Chicago has ordered the case impounded!
In other words, kept secret.
ITEM: On our cable TV show, we asked most guests that were
candidates for public office what *they* would do about the CIA
complicity in the dope business. Huh-huh. You probably guessed
what happened: *none* of the candidates gave us a straight
answer! (By the way, some call it [i.e., CIA] the "Cocaine Import
Agency".)
The dope business continues on a high level because of high-level
government complicity. Call up your local news fakers and tell
them to stop kidding us about the dope business, huh?
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
(312) 731-1100 is our main message. Donations appreciated.
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[CN -- Received the following from a CN reader]
Dear Brian,
I put together a few articles that might interest you. The first
is excerpts from the article about Mena that was supposed to
appear in the *Washington Post*, but you know what happened.... It
appeared in the final edition of *New American View*...
Maybe there's something there for Conspiracy of the Day.
Best of luck for COD. All the best.
[...]
-----------------------------------------------
Exclusive
The Crimes of Mena
Clinton and the Cult of Intelligence
The following are excerpts from an article by former National
Security Council staffer Roger Morris and Sally Denton. This
amazing story was scheduled to appear in the *Washington Post on
January 29 - after months of delay by the Clintonites and the CIA
cultists at the *Post. However, in a last minute turnaround by the
editor of the *Post, the story was not published (see accompanying
item from *The Sunday Telegraph).
If the story ever makes headline news it is almost certain to
bring down the Clinton presidency. Moreover, though, it threatens
much more than a presidency - it exposes the total corrupt and
debased nature of consecutive U.S. Administrations.
Of the many stories emerging from the Arkansas of the 1980s that
was the crucible of the Clinton presidency, none has been more
elusive - nor more ominous - than the specter of major drug
smuggling, gunrunning and money laundering tracing to the tiny
town of Mena, nestled in the dense pine forests of the Ouachita
Mountains some 150 miles due west of Little Rock.
Local Internal Revenue Service agent Bill Duncan, Arkansas State
Police investigator Russell Welch, Arkansas Attorney General
Winston Bryant, then-Congressman Bill Alexander and various other
officials and citizens in the state all believed by the late 1980s
that they had what Bryant termed "credible evidence" of the most
serious criminal activity involving Mena between 1981 and 1986,
crimes seemingly with the acquiescence if not complicity of
elements of the U.S. government. Mena's obscure Intermountain
Airport they thought to be a base for Adler Berriman (Barry) Seal,
a self-confessed, convicted smuggler whose operations were said to
be linked to the intelligence community, and who was murdered by
Colombian assassins early in 1986 after Seal testified for the
U.S. government in a prosecution of leaders of the Medellin drug
cartel.
After 1987, Duncan, Welch and others pressed for a number of
official investigations into the alleged Mena connection. To their
mounting dismay and alarm, every inquiry would be inexplicably
ineffectual or else stifled altogether, and their own careers
damaged in the process, furthering their suspicions of
higher-level collusion and cover-up - and in any case leaving the
larger mystery of what had really happened in the woods of western
Arkansas.
Now, however, a new mass of documentary evidence relating to Barry
Seal has come to light, substantiating the worst suspicions about
Mena as never before.
Gathered from various sources over the course of the past year,
the more than 2,000 documents span the years 1981-1986, and
include Seal's bank and telephone records; negotiable instruments,
promissory notes and invoices; personal correspondence; address
and appointment books; bills of sale for aircraft and parts;
aircraft registration and modification work orders; personal
diaries, handwritten "to do" lists and other private notes;
secretly tape-recorded conversations; cryptographic keys and
legends for codes used in the Seal operation; numerous depositions
and other sworn statements - and, not least, extensive official
records, including federal investigative and surveillance reports,
accounting assessments by the IRS and Drug Enforcement Agency, and
previousIy unreported court testimony as well as confidential
pre-sentencing memoranda in federal narcotics trafficking trials
in Florida and Nevada.
Startling Evidence
Among only a few of its revelations, the Seal Archive provides
documentation:
* That Mena, Arkansas from 1981 to 1986 was indeed one of the
centers of an international smuggling traffic, amounting - by
official IRS and DEA calculations, sworn court testimony and other
corroborative records - to many thousands of pounds or kilos of
cocaine and heroin, and literally hundreds of millions of dollars
in drug profits.
* That Seal himself spent hundreds of thousands at the Mena
airport to land, base, maintain and specially equip or refit his
aircraft for smuggling. According to personal and business
records, he had extensive associations locally at Mena and in
Little Rock, and was in nearly constant telephone contact with
Mena when he was not there himself, including repeated calls just
before the day of his murder in 1986.
* That as a former member of the U.S. Army's Special Forces, Seal
had ties to the Central Intelligence Agency dating to the early
1970s. He had confided to relatives and others, according to their
sworn statements, that he was a CIA operative before and during
the period when he was establishing his operations at Mena.
* That Federal Aviation Administration registration records
confirm that aircraft officially identified or admitted to be in
the Seal smuggling operation at Mena and elsewhere were previously
owned by Air America, Inc., a known CIA "proprietary" company.
Emile Camp, one of Seal's pilots and a witness to some of his most
significant dealings, was killed on a mountainside near Mena in
1985, in the unexplained crash of one of those planes previously
belonging to Air America.
* According to still other Seal records, at least some of the
aircraft of his smuggling fleet, which numbered a Learjet,
helicopters, and former U.S. military transports, were also
outfitted with avionics and other equipment by yet another company
in turn linked to Air America.
* That among the aircraft flown in and out of Mena was Seal's
C-123K cargo plane, christened *Fat Lady. The records show that
*Fat Lady, serial number 54-0679, was sold by Seal months before
his death. According to still other files, the plane soon found
its way to a "phantom company" of what became known in the
Iran-contra scandal as "The Enterprise," the CIA-related secret
entity managed by then-Col. Oliver North and others to smuggle
illegal weapons to the Nicaraguan contra rebels, and, according to
former Drug Enforcement Agency agent Celerino Castillo and others,
allegedly involved as well in a return traffic in cocaine, profits
from which were then used to finance more clandestine gunrunning.
* Federal aviation records show that in October, 1986, the same
*Fat Lady from Mena, serial number 54-0679, was shot down over
Nicaragua with a load of arms destined for the contras. The doomed
aircraft was co-piloted by a Wallace Blaine (Buzz) Sawyer who was
himself from Magnolia in western Arkansas and who died in the
crash. It was the lone surviving crew member in that downing,
Eugene Hasenfus, whose admission of covert activity began a public
unraveling of the Iran-contra episode.
* That the hundreds of millions in profits generated by the Seal
trafficking via Mena and elsewhere resulted in extraordinary
banking and business practices in apparent efforts to "launder" or
disperse the vast illicit money in Arkansas and elsewhere. The
Seal financial records show for the early 1980s, for example,
instances of daily deposits of $50,000 or more, and extensive use
of an offshore, foreign bank in the Caribbean as well as financial
institutions in Arkansas and Florida. (On October 9, the London
*Sunday Telegraph reported independently the existence of
"numerous" other foreign bank accounts in Seal's name, including
one said to contain over a billion dollars.)
* That Seal was scarcely alone in his extensive smuggling through
Mena and elsewhere over the period 1981-86, commonly described in
both federal and state law enforcement files among the Seal papers
as one of the largest drug trafficking operations in the U.S. at
the time, if not in the history of the drug trade. He was "only
the transport," documents show Seal confiding on one occasion,
pointing to an extensive network of narcotics distribution and
finance in Arkansas and other states. As one example, the Seal
records show him to have been a close associate of a group
eventually prosecuted for major narcotics trafficking in
neighboring Kentucky.
* That in explicit recognition of Seal's extraordinary
significance in the drug trade - and thus of the magnitude and
importance of Mena as one of his main bases - U.S. government
prosecutors made him their chief witness in a 1985 Miami trial *in
absentia* of Medellin drug lords, in another 1985 trial of what
federal officials regarded as the largest narcotics trafficking
case to date in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in still a third
prosecution of corrupt officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
At the same time, court records and other documents reveal a
studied indifference by government prosecutors to Seal's earlier
and ongoing operations in Mena.
The Barry Seal files are vindication for dedicated officials in
Arkansas and others who kept an all-too-authentic story alive amid
wider indifference. What happened to some nine different official
investigations into Mena after 1987, from allegedly compromised
federal grand juries to congressional inquiries suppressed by the
National Security Council in 1988 under Ronald Reagan, to still
later Justice Department inaction under George Bush?
Officials apparently invoked "national security" to quash most of
the invesigations. Court documents do show clearly that the CIA
and DEA employed Seal in 1984-85 for the Reagan administration's
celebrated "sting" attempting to implicate thc Nicaraguan
Sandinista regime in cocaine trafficking.
Having assessed Seal posthumously for some $86 million in back
taxes on his huge smuggler's earnings from Mena and elsewhere
between 1981 and 1983, as his tax records show, even the IRS
forgave hundreds of millions in known drug and gun profits over
the ensuing two-year period when Seal was in effect moonlighting
for the U.S. government. "... Worked for the DEA/CIA," an IRS
agent noted pointedly across one of the papers in a file on Seal's
taxes.
But to follow the IRS logic, what of the years, crimes and profits
at Mena in the early 1980s *before* Barry Seal became an
acknowledged federal operative, and then reported drug trafficking
activities at Mena even after his murder, crimes far removed from
his admitted cooperation as government informant and witness?
Government investigators apparently had no doubt about the scope
and magnitude of those crimes. According to U.S. Customs sources,
Seal's operations at Mena and other bases were involved in the
export of guns to Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil as well as the
contras, and the importation of cocaine from Colombia to be sold
in New York, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and other cities, as well
as in Arkansas itself.
Yet again and again over the years, lower level federal or state
law enforcement officers looking into the crimes of Mena found
themselves stymied by the apparent presence of the CIA or other
government involvement. "Joe [deleted] works for Seal, and cannot
be touched because Seal works for the CIA," as one U.S. Customs
official put it in an Arkansas investigation in the early 1980s.
"... A CIA or DEA operation is taking place at the Mena airport,"
an FBI telex advised the Arkansas State Police in August, 1987, 18
months after Seal's assassination.
Significantly, none of the putative inquiries into Mena seems to
have made a serious effort to gather even a fraction of the
available Seal documents now assembled and studied by the
authors.
In over 2,000 documents reflecting intimately a man of meticulous
organization and planning, careful about every detail, Barry Seal
seems to have felt singularly and utterly secure - if not somehow
invulnerable - at least in the air transport and delivery in the
U.S. of tons of cocaine, done ceaselessly for more than five
years. His most personal papers show him all but unconcerned about
the very flights and drops, say law enforcement sources, that
would indeed have been protected or "fixed" by the collusion of
U.S. intelligence.
If the Seal documents show anything, an attentive reader might
conclude, it is that ominous implication of some official
sanction. Over the entire episode looms the unmistakable dark
shape of U.S. government complicity in vast drug trafficking and
gunrunning, and in a decade-long cover-up of the criminality.
Clinton's Involvement
Finally, of course, there are somber questions about then-Gov.
Bill Clinton's own role *vis-a-vis the crimes of Mena. He has
acknowledged learning officially about Mena only in April, 1988,
though a state police investigation of Mena, reportedly amounting
to thousands of pages, had been in progress for several years, and
as the state's chief executive Clinton was customarily abreast of
such inquiries. In his one public statement on the matter as
governor in September, 1991, he spoke of that state police
investigation finding "linkages to the federal government" and
"all kinds of questions about whether he [Seal] had any links to
the CIA... and if that backed into the Iran-contra deal."
But then, inexplicably, Clinton did not at any time seize on the
issue or offer further support for any inquiry, "despite the
fact," as Bill Plante and Michael Singer of CBS News have written,
"that a Republican administration was apparently sponsoring a
contra aid operation in his state and protecting a smuggling ring
that flew tons of cocaine through Arkansas."
Moreover, what of the hundreds of millions generated by Seal's
Mena contraband? The Seal records reveal his dealings with at
least one major Little Rock bank. How much drug money from him or
his associates made its way into criminal laundering in Arkansas's
notoriously free-wheeling financial institutions and bond houses,
some of which are reportedly under investigation by the Whitewater
Special Prosecutor for just such large, unaccountable infusions of
cash and unexplained transactions? "The state offers an enticing
climate for traffickers... " IRS agents had concluded by the end
of the 1980s, documenting a "major increase" in the amount of
large cash and bank transactions in the state after 1985, despite
a struggling local economy.
Meanwhile, others who were prominent backers of Clinton over the
same years have themselves been subjects of extensive
investigative and surveillance files by the DEA and FBI similar to
those relating to Seal. "This may be the first president in
history with such close buddies who have NADDIS numbers," says one
concerned law enforcement official, referring to the Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs Intelligence System numbers assigned those under
protracted investigation for possible drug crimes. The Seal
documents seem still more proof that for Clinton, the Arkansas of
the 1980s, and the company he kept there, will not soon disappear
as a political or even constitutional liability.
"I've always felt we never got the whole story there..." Clinton
said in his 1991 statement on Mena. Indeed. But as president of
the United States, he need no longer wonder - and neither does the
nation. On the basis of the Seal documents (copies of which are
being given to the Whitewater Special Prosecutor in any case), the
president should ask immediately for a full report on the matter
from what is now the CIA, DEA, FBI, Justice Department and other
relevant agencies of his own administration, including the
long-buried evidence gathered by Duncan and Welch. Clinton should
also offer full executive branch cooperation with a re-opened
congressional inquiry, and expose the subject fully, for what it
says of both our past and future.
As for Seal, he saw himself as a patriot to the end. He had
dictated his own epitaph for his grave in Baton Rouge: "A rebel
adventurer the likes of whom in previous days made America great."
In a sense, his documents may now render that claim less ironic
than it seems.
>From *New American View*, February, 1995. PO Box 999, Herndon,
Virginia.
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SUMMARY OF CONVERSATION WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK
February 27, 1995
I talked by phone for about 40 minutes with Sherman Skolnick of
the Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts. The breaking
story that he and his associates are working on deals with the
collapse of the Baring Brothers Bank in England. He questions,
for one thing, if the bank collapsed on Friday then why did they
wait until Sunday evening/Monday morning to begin breaking the
story. He also notes that the bank is mentioned in one of the
classic books on the "War on Drugs" -- *Dope, Inc.* by the
editors of Executive Intelligence Review. Mr. Skolnick also finds
questionable the story being fronted that the entire collapse of
the bank is attributable to *one* sole employee who has now
(conveniently) disappeared.
I asked as to the recent alleged threats to his person and
liberty allegedly made by a Mr. Parshall of the U.S. Justice
Department. He reports that he has become used to such threats
over his 30 years of investigating government corruption but that
in this case the threats were particularly vehement -- enough to
cause concern. However, as stated, he notes that he has become
used to such threats. For example, he stated that he has been
thrown in jail for contempt of court so many times that he has
become quite used to it. He also gave a clue to alleged Justice
Department operations in his portrayal of how they threaten you,
"They don't say they are going to break your legs with a baseball
bat. They just begin to emphasize some things." So, for example,
regarding Mr. Skolnick's allegations concerning Judge Schwartz
(as is being documented in Conspiracy Nation), Mr. Parshall,
according to Mr. Skolnick, was screaming that he was going to
inform Judge Schwartz as to what Mr. Skolnick has been saying
about Schwartz's alleged corruption.
Why is the Justice Department so upset? As is being reported in
Conspiracy Nation, an IRS employee named Lynn Redmer has decided
to "spill the beans" as to what she knows concerning corruption
in the IRS. Skolnick views this as the sort of situation where
"one of the [IRS] family", so to speak, has broken the code of
silence and that this has got IRS and the government boiling mad.
Skolnick expresses that he hopes Redmer does not herself become
targetted for her brave whistle-blowing effort.
I asked as to how Whitewater was progressing. Readers of
Conspiracy Nation may recall that Skolnick's sources had
previously indicated to him that there was a stalemate in efforts
to bring this story out; that the Democrats and Republicans, both
being "dirty" in the Iran-Contra/Mena imbroglio, had come to an
impasse where an "I won't tell if you won't tell" situation was
in effect. This situation is beginning to moderate, due to the
huge pressure being brought to bring this story out. For example,
there is a Virginia attorney, connected with that State's
government, who has been trying to launch his own investigation
into the supposed "suicide" of White House deputy counsel Vincent
Foster, jr. Skolnick thinks that we will see things heating up in
March and April.
Sherman Skolnick had, years ago, written a book on airline
crashes which was suppressed. He expressed his wish, during our
conversation, to again try to publish a book. His concern however
is that, due to narrow corporate ownership of most publishing
houses, any book he writes will never see the light of day. I
suggested to him that Thunder's Mouth Press might possibly handle
him (Thunder's Mouth was courageous enough, for example, to
publish Mike Levine's *The Big White Lie*). Skolnick said that,
yes, he had considered Thunder's Mouth. He added that he
certainly has got enough documentation because government
employees are routinely albeit surreptitiously sending him
information. I, for one, hope he does get a book out there. Mr.
Skolnick has important information that many would want to know.
Due to Mr. Skolnick's worldwide recognition as a veteran
investigator into corruption, a publisher stands a good chance of
making money from the publication of any book by him.
Mr. Skolnick has tons of documents lying around, and he is
receiving more all the time. One winter, in the middle of a
blizzard, a truck pulled up in front of the offices of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] with boxes and
boxes of documents for Mr. Skolnick and his associates.
The "CCCC" is always on the lookout for new ways to "get the word
out". They use their recorded phone message (312-731-1100), they
print and distribute leaflets, and they have their own weekly
public access TV show. The Citizens' Committee is now about to
acquire video equipment which will allow them on-the-spot access
to their sources. Previously, when they had wanted to interview
someone, it was necessary to have the interviewee visit the set
of their show. Now, they will be able to pursue their quarry with
their own cameras. Mr. Skolnick also has received as a gift a
"super-duper fax machine" that he is trying to figure out how to
operate. The machine, once operational, will reputedly be able to
send out over 100 messages simultaneously.
Mr. Skolnick has become used to controversy. In the late 60's,
uproar was so intense after he had brought financial corruption
to light that the Chicago police cordoned off both ends of the
narrow street on which he resides. Mysterious black helicopters
routinely follow he and his associates as they pursue their
investigations. The "CCCC" maintains their phone message, in
part, because some government employees do not dare have their
names on any mailing list that Skolnick and associates might put
out. With the recorded phone message, government employees who
want to know what is going on but who are fearful of surveillance
can sneak to a pay phone and get the "rest of the story".
Finally, as a personal note, I want to add that I found Mr.
Skolnick to be an excellent conversationalist. He was forthcoming
with any information he had and was the sort of person who you
could easily talk with and have the time seem to fly by. He has
an excellent sense of humor, which is a bit too rare, I think,
amongst conspiracy researchers (although he stresses that,
strictly speaking, he is *not* a "conspiracy theorist"). Mr.
Skolnick keeps the frightening truths he uncovers in perspective
by being able to, from time to time, just stand back and laugh at
the whole thing.
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BEST OF TRAFICANT
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As previously noted, the *Congressional Record* is now online via
Mosaic or World Wide Web at http://thomas.loc.gov
The following are selections from some of the 1-minute remarks
made by Representative Traficant of Ohio.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
COMMENTS ON MEXICAN LOAN GUARANTEE (House - February 23, 1995)
[Page: H2071]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Uncle Sam will not help Washington, DC,
because of waste, fraud, and mismanagement. Let's see if I understand
this: Down there in Mexico there is waste, fraud, mismanagement,
corruption, larceny, kickbacks, bribes, and conspiracy. There is even
an armed revolution to boot. But Uncle Sam can find $53 billion to
bail out Mexico.
Tell me, Mr. Speaker, who is now formulating the policy for the United
States of America? The Three Stooges, or what? Beam me up. When Uncle
Sam can say `Sorry, Charlie,' to Orange County, CA; Washington, DC;
Youngstown, OH; and New York but find $53 billion for Mexico, that
says it all, Congress. Think about it.
_________________________________________________________________
CALLING FOR MEMBERS' ASSISTANCE REGARDING FEDERAL INVESTIGATION
OF WEAVER FAMILY KILLINGS (House - January 24, 1995)
[Page: H548]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, in 1992 Federal agents attacked the Weaver
family in Idaho. They killed 14-year-old Sammy Weaver. They shot him
in the back. They then shot an unarmed Mrs. Weaver and killed her,
shooting her right between the eyes as she held her infant baby. They
even killed the dog. Court documents now prove the FBI lied in court.
Federal agents fired first. Weaver was entrapped into a gun violation.
Mr. Speaker, is this the Justice Department or is this the KGB? I
always thought in America our Government does not shoot 14-year-olds
in the back. Our Government does not shoot unarmed mothers while they
hold their infant.
Mr. Speaker, I have asked for a Federal investigation of this matter,
and both sides of the aisle need to provide some oversight to the
agencies of our Justice Department. I would appreciate the Members'
help.
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BARBIE DOLL HAS MOVED TO MEXICO ALONG WITH 700 UNITED STATES JOBS
(House -January 19, 1995)
[Page: H334]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, while Congress plays politics with Newt
Gingrich, last night's trade deficit showed a record of $10.5
billion. The 1994 trade deficit, Democrats, will hit a record $154
billion, which is equivalent to 3 million high-paying American jobs
with benefits lost.
It has gotten so bad, Barbie Doll has moved to Mexico. Mattel Inc.,
from New York, is laying off 700 workers. They will make Barbie Dolls
now in Mexico.
Mexico gets jobs, America gets pink slips, and Congress is debating
Newt Gingrich and balanced budget amendments? Beam me up. There is
no intelligent life left in the Congress of the United States.
Where is the trade program of the Democrat Party? We are failing the
American workers, and that is why we are in the minority, quibbling
over the Speaker.
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CUT THE CIA (House - February 15, 1995)
[Page: H1764]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the CIA said they knew nothing of secret
government radiation tests on American guinea pigs in the fifties.
Those guinea pigs were American citizens.
Can you believe this, Government documents now reveal the CIA not only
knew, they funded a radiation testing lab in California to test
American prisoners. Unbelievable. They knew nothing about the mining
of the harbors, they knew nothing about the death-threat manuals, they
knew nothing about Gary Powers. Stone cold lies.
Now, evidence shows that during the Westmoreland-CBS trial, a secret
CIA memo says, `Have we gone beyond reasonable dishonesty?' Reasonable
dishonesty, Members? Lies, stone cold lies through their teeth.
If Government is going to reform itself and cut the size of
Government, Congress should cut the hell out of the CIA.
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STOP THE GRAVY TRAIN FOR RUSSIA (House - February 13, 1995)
[Page: H1620]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, you heard about Boris, now get a load of
Yuri. That is right, Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow, next President of
Russia. Secret meetings, secret budgets, secret records, secret
million dollar deals. This guy Yuri makes Boss Tweed look like mother
Teresa, but he is a prototype, Congress, of new Russian politicians.
He hires his family so he can save money on the car pool.
Meanwhile, they are laughing all the way to the bank with our $12
billion. To boot, it is being put in a Russian bank.
I think Boris and now specifically Yuri leave a lot to be desired,
and I say Congress should stop this $12 billion gravy train for
Russia and invest it in America. I think these guys are no Thomas
Jefferson.
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WHERE ARE THE JOBS PROGRAMS? (House - February 03, 1995)
[Page: H1161]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the economists say that the economy is
great. My question, Mr. Speaker: Are these economists smoking dope or
what? Orange County is bankrupt. The District of Columbia is bankrupt.
The trade deficit hit a record of $153 billion, and Americans keep
getting pink slips.
Listen to this from the State of Washington to Kansas to Philadelphia,
Boeing just laid off 7,000 workers.
Congress, it is jobs, living-wage jobs, and there is not a job program
on the Republican side and there is not a job program on the Democrat
side.
If there is any consolation, Mr. Speaker, Burger King is hiring, and I
never heard of anybody that committed suicide by jumping out of a
basement window.
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FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD IS SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF CONGRESS,
NOT THE WHITE HOUSE (House - February 22, 1995)
[Page: H1972]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Constitution says only Congress can
draw money from the Treasury. It also says only Congress can coin
money, regulate the value thereof and regulate the value of foreign
money. Only Congress, the Constitution says, can regulate commerce
with foreign nations.
The question I ask, Congress, is under what authority did Robert Rubin
sign an agreement to bail out Mexico? To me it is unbelievable.
Now, the Washington Times reported that our bailout is going to bail
out the Mexican banks and Mexican companies. Ladies and gentlemen, we
are bailing out Mexican banks, we are putting our banks on the line
here and our taxpayers in the fire.
I disagree with this. I think the Federal Reserve Board is subject to
the jurisdiction of Congress, not the White House. It is time for a
constitutional court case to determine that.
I plan to challenge the bailout in court.
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WELFARE QUEENS AND THE WELFARE KINGS OF THE CORPORATE WORLD
(House - February 06, 1995)
[Page: H1218]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the President's budget is already under
attack, and that is par for the course. There are people who are still
blasting welfare queens, but keep in mind that AFDC helps American
children and food stamps help feed America's poor.
What bothers me is that no one talks about those welfare kings, with
that $51 billion in direct subsidies to corporations and $53 billion
in tax breaks for fat cats. And no one talks about welfare kings.
Check this out: $18 million for Sunkist to sell orange juice; $5
million for Gallo to sell wine; $1 million for M&M to sell candy; half
a million to Ronald McDonald to sell chicken; and half a million to
Campbell's Soups to sell V-8 juice. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.
President Clinton's budget may not be perfect, but it has a heart and
it has a soul, and that may be just a good place to start our debate
from. Think about that.
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INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION TO REDIRECT FOREIGN AID TO AMERICANS
(House -February 09, 1995)
[Page: H1468]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Congress borrows money from Japan and
Germany and then Congress pays interest on that borrowed money to
Japan and Germany. Then Congress takes that borrowed money and gives
it back to Japan and Germany to protect them.
Now we give money, our borrowed money to Germany to protect them from
an invasion from Russia. But then we give money to Russia so that
Russia does not have to invade Germany.
If any of this makes sense, beam me up. The only good thing about it,
evidently, is that the Russians could not overwhelm the Capitol
Police.
But the bottom line is we borrow money to help everybody all over the
world, but we cannot come up with money to help our own people. I have
a little bill, H.R. 782. It would take $5 billion of foreign aid and
transfer it to revenue sharing for cities and counties.
I think Members should take a look at that, Democrats at least.
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NAFTA, 1 YEAR LATER (House - February 07, 1995)
[Page: H1292]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, NAFTA, 1 year later. Thirty-six thousand
Americans have filed claims with the Labor Department. They lost their
jobs due to NAFTA. That is right, and the list goes on. Woolrich up in
Pennsylvania and Colorado, they laid off 450 workers, moved to Mexico,
hired workers at $1 an hour. You have Magnatech in Indiana and
Michigan. They moved to Mexico.
Tell me, Congress, how can American workers survive when American
companies can move to Mexico, hire people at $1 an hour, have no IRS
or EPA or OSHA to pay them a visit? Is it any wonder the American
worker is fed up with Congress? A Congress that will take care of
Russia, but forget about Rhode Island? A Congress that will take care
of Kuwait, but forget about Kentucky? A Congress that will worry about
Mexico and forget about Mississippi and Massachusetts?
Is it any wonder, Congress? Think about the American worker for a
change.
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EFFECTS OF INTEREST RATE INCREASES (House - February 01, 1995)
[Page: H976]
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, in America the sun shines in from the PTA
to the Halls of Congress. The American people have a front row seat.
But when it comes to the Federal Reserve Board, the American people
cannot even buy a seat in the peanut gallery. Unbelievable; at this
very moment the Fed behind closed doors is deciding whether or not to
raise our interest rates. And the Fed says `Look, our business is too
important for the American people to understand and what the American
people don't know won't hurt them.'
Unbelievable.
Mr. Speaker, while Congress cannot go to the bathroom without a camera
team, the Federal Reserve Board conducts their business and Congress
waits for Alan Greenspan to come out of some closed door with either
thumbs up or thumbs down.
Mr. Speaker, I say it is very simple: Alan Greenspan is giving America
the finger and Congress does not even know why.
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LEGISLATION TO EXTEND MANDATORY COVERAGE OF THE INDEPENDENT
COUNSEL LAW TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEYS
[Page: E62]
HON. JAMES A. TRAFICANT, JR.
OF OHIO
in the House of Representatives
Monday, January 9, 1995
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, today I am reintroducing legislation to
add a new section to the act that would require the Attorney General
to call for the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate
allegations that Justice Department attorneys engaged in prosecutorial
misconduct, corruption, or fraud. I introduced identical legislation
in the last Congress.
The independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of
1978 require the Attorney General to conduct a preliminary
investigation when presented with credible information alleging
criminal wrongdoing by high ranking executive branch officials. If the
Attorney General finds that further investigation is warranted or
makes no finding within 90 days, the act requires the Attorney General
to apply to a special division of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
appointment of an independent counsel. The act also gives the Attorney
General of the United States broad discretionary authority to seek the
appointment of independent counsel with regard to individuals other
than high executive branch officials. However, the Attorney General is
not required to do so in such cases.
My bill would amend the act to treat allegations of misconduct,
corruption or fraud on the part of Justice Department attorneys in the
same manner as allegations made against high ranking Cabinet
officials. In effect, the amendment would require the Attorney General
to follow the procedures of the independent counsel law when presented
with specific and credible allegations of criminal wrongdoing on the
part of Justice Department attorneys. My goal is to ensure that, when
there is credible evidence of criminal wrongdoing in such cases, these
cases are aggressively and objectively investigated.
I am very concerned over the growing number of cases in which Justice
Department attorneys have been accused of misconduct, corruption or
fraud. In several cases I have personally investigated, innocent men
fell victim to overzealous or corrupt Federal prosecutors. The Justice
Department has a poor record of aggressively and objectively
investigating these cases. The only way to uncover all the facts and
guarantee that innocent lives are not destroyed, is to have a truly
independent counsel appointed to investigate. The American people
expect that the Justice Department--more than any other Federal
agency--conduct its business with the highest level of ethics and
integrity. Unfortunately, there are instances where this is not always
the case. It is imperative that the Independent Counsel Act be amended
to require that allegations of criminal misconduct on the part of
Justice Department attorneys be treated with the same seriousness as
allegations made against high ranking cabinet officials.
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following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
Well, the Queen of England's bank has gone under. What does it
mean, huh?
Operating for over 230 years, Barings Brothers Securities
survived wars and depressions, and was supposedly "done in" by a
28-year-old derivatives trader in the yen market who has
conveniently disappeared. So was the royal British merchant bank
killed by the misguided "lone assassin" of world finance? *Oh*
*yeah*?!
Some write it off as merely another shot in the battle between
securities traders and merchant bankers on one side, and the
"banker bankers" on the other side. Under attack are laws in the
united States prohibiting bankers from being in the stock and
bond business. Others know it to be more profound.
In 1943, the Pope had an understanding with the western powers
during World War II. The Vatican agreed *not* to interfere with
financial matters of the West for 50 years. *They* agreed to
protect the Vatican during and after the war. The American CIA
later helped arrange and finance the mighty Vatican Bank, which
became interwoven with the traditional Sicilian and Italian Mafia
as well as the spook agencies worldwide.
Well, just before the 50 years expired, the western bankers
started their attack on Italy's largest, the Banca Nazionale de
Lavoro [BNL], owned in part by the Pope. They claimed that BNL
secretly handles some $5 billion through their U.S. branch in
Atlanta. Destination? Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi strongman,
enabling him to buy exotic weapons disguised as "U.S. agriculture
loans".
In 1990, BNL's Chicago branch became involved in a semi-secret,
super-duper federal court case in Chicago involving joint,
private business ventures of Saddam Hussein and his secret
partner, George Herbert Walker Bush, at the time, U.S. President.
The case revolved around billions and billions of dollars of oil
kickbacks from other Persian Gulf countries. We [CCCC] were the
*only* journalists at the federal appeals court hearing in 1991.
The three-judge panel was blackmailed into quietly putting the
case out of court. The Bush Justice Department knew about their
bribery in 8 other cases. Writing the corrupt decision was
Rockefeller agent Judge Richard A. Posner, later becoming chief
judge.
The Pope and the British monarchy have been fighting around for
over 500 years. So, two years ago, after the 50-year peace pact
had expired, the Pope arranged to zap the Queen's bank. Barings
managed the portfolio and reportedly controlled the assets of the
public pension funds in Vermont, New York, Florida, Minnesota,
and California. Billions of U.S. pension funds are frozen, or
endangered, with the collapse of Barings. The huge London City
bank, Abbey National, may also go down.
Barings' American conduit is Northern Trust Company of Chicago.
Barings owned 40 percent of Dillon Read, a primary dealer in U.S.
Treasury notes. More sinister: the British royal family, through
Barings Bank, has been involved in the Far East dope trade for
over 150 years! With the coming of "China White" [heroin],
however, the Queen and her dope-laundry bank have been somehow
"X'd out".
The Barings Bank crowd know the secret that Tsar Nicholas II of
Russia and his family actually were *not* murdered in 1918 at the
time of the Russian Revolution. In 1974, our chairman [CCCC] and
others with us interviewed, for two whole days, Alexei Romanov,
who has substantial proof that he, his sisters, and parents, the
Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, were not murdered as falsely stated
by history books. Involved is $400 million in Romanov family gold
in the Rockefeller banks -- when gold was $20 per ounce. If the
secret comes out, the Rockefellers would have to disgorge
billions of dollars.
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "The History of Bombings". (312) 731-1505.
New message Friday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political
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following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
When a government instigates bombings and violence, it's called
"state-sponsored terrorism". The U.S. government has a long
history of doing such. A hundred years ago and more, Pinkerton
agents linked to the federal government arranged bombings and
shootings to blame onto coal miners and iron workers who wanted
to organize trade unions in opposition to the ultra-rich.
In the 1920s, the government arranged violence, to blame onto so-
called "reds". An example is the 1921 bombing on Wall Street. So
originated the "red squads" in most big city police departments.
The FBI had similar units.
In the 1960s and '70s, explosions and bloodshed were arranged,
*in* *the* *U.S.*, by FBI and CIA to seek to discredit the peace
movement opposing the Vietnam War. (The French word for such, by
the way, is *agent provocateur*.)
CIA and Military Intelligence, through their paid *provocateurs*,
staged a confrontation with the Chicago police. The 1968
Democratic Convention riots discredited Democratic candidates for
President and helped install Nixon and repression. The commotions
were paid for through CIA conduits: the Roger Baldwin Foundation,
successor to the American Civil Liberties Union, the J.M. Kaplan
Fund of New York, the New World Foundation, and others. (By the
way, First Lady Hillary Clinton was later a director and board
chairman of the New World Foundation. So President Clinton is
well-aware of what a *provocateur* is.)
Surrendering to government mandate, the mass media forbade any
mention of *provocateurs* on the air or in print. In 1972, our
chairman [CCCC] was arrested by a squad of 18 police in a Chicago
TV station when he dared grill "Chicago Seven" riot maker Rennie
Davis about the half a million dollars that Rennie got from CIA
fronts.
In the 1960s and '70s, Military Intelligence paid for shoot-ups
and murders by south side gangs in Chicago! Jeff Fort and
company. Millions of dollars came from CIA fronts in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, such as the Charles Merrill Trust. The purpose was
to study how to cow and subdue entire neighborhoods, and use it
as a computer model to control civilians in Vietnam. The computer
work was done at the massive Army Math Center in Madison,
Wisconsin. The place was bombed to the ground in 1970 when a
government *provocateur* turned on his masters. (By the way,
knowledgeable police officers in the Chicago Police Gang
Intelligence Unit were suspended or punished for complaining
about CIA funding of the gangs.)
So, it should come as no surprise that the FBI and the CIA are
running around trying to cover up U.S. government complicity in
the bombing at the World Trade Center in New York, a result of
the Bush and Clinton factions fighting. Note: blown up were U.S.
Secret Service vehicles and a limousine to be used by the
President in a scheduled event three days later. Were stock and
bond brokers linked to Clinton damaged in the bombing? *Huh*??
The damage was reportedly the result of one or more of the
following: the same CIA-developed and -controlled explosives used
by terrorists manipulated by CIA in bombing the U.S. Marine
barracks in Beirut, killing 250; *and*, a new device called
"EHT", breaking down molecular structures and can melt away steel
-- sort of a *sub*-nuclear bomb!
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "What the Dope Business is Really About". (312)
731-1505.
New message Wednesday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
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>From the *Congressional Record*, available via World Wide Web
and/or Mosaic at http://thomas.loc.gov
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`THE PROJECT' (House - February 28, 1995)
[Page: H2312]
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Dickey). Under the Speaker's announced
policy of January 4, 1995, the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Whitfield]
is recognized during morning business for 5 minutes.
Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with great concern about an
article which appeared in Sunday's Washington Post. Since I read
articles in most newspapers with great skepticism, I hope that facts
set out in this article are not true.
According to the article in the Washington Post, a prominent
Democratic Congressman at a recent Washington dinner party
enthusiastically discussed what he referred to as `The Project'--a
coordinated, calculated effort designed to politically destroy Speaker
Newt Gingrich.
A week later, another Member of the Democratic Party, in a keynote
address to a party convention in Boca Raton, disclosed that the House
Democratic leadership had embarked on a day-by-day plan to investigate
the House Speaker, harass the Speaker, and drive him from office.
According to the article, members of the Democratic leadership in the
House meet on a weekly basis for this purpose. Mr. Gephardt is
represented at the meetings and the White House is also kept informed.
The Democratic National Committee also publishes a weekly `Newt Gram'
trashing the Speaker.
Two senior liberal Democratic Members of Congress--not a part of `The
Project'; that is, Newt bashing--said `Our party attacks Gingrich
because we don't have anything else to say.'
If it is true, what a tragedy--the National Democratic Party and its
leaders deliberately working on `The Project' to destroy another
political leader.
Our great Nation faces many serious issues crying out for a solution.
It is almost incomprehensible that a handful of Democratic leaders
would be consumed with such a destructive compulsion for revenge.
It is not surprising that in so many issues we have debated on this
floor during the last month that a handful of Democrats have used
similar tactics to polarize America. Pitting the poor versus the
middle class--and the middle class versus wealthy members of our
society--in effect using scare tactics.
We are all Americans and we must develop solutions that will benefit
our entire society not just one part of our society. The American
people not only deserve but demand that Members of Congress devote
their time and energy trying to solve very serious national issues
instead of trying to destroy another political leader because they do
not agree with his political philosophy.
The election box is the proper place to decide philosophical
differences, not some sinister plan referred to as `The Project.'
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 2, 1995
I spoke by phone with Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens' Committee
to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC]. Here is my transcription of that
interview.
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[Phone rings]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Uh, Sherman Skolnick?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Hi. This is Brian Redman. I talked with you a few days ago?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, right.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. I got the Barings Bank thing went out on the Internet, O.K.
I'm also wondering if you have, maybe, 5 minutes, I could ask you
some questions?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I'd be glad.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. What I've done...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
By the way, the message was highly detailed. I hope it didn't
cause you any trouble to transcribe it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
No. As a matter of fact, I... I printed out the transcription and
it's in the mail, O.K.? So you should be gettin' it... mmm,
tomorrow or Saturday.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Thank you.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Uh, I've been runnin' around a lot, you know, so, I...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Thank you for your efforts.
I have been talking to people all over [the] United States and
elsewhere, gathering information on this. I... You know, I know a
lot of people.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
What kind of questions do you have?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. All right, well, number one, O.K. Let me just kind of throw
something out at ya: I got this... You see, what I, the way I had
been recording your recorded messages before was I had a micro-
cassette recorder that I would place right up to the ear of the
phone to record the message. And I, my idea was, I went to Radio
Shack and they told me that there was this kind of a gizmo, O.K.?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, right. It costs about $21 and you plug it directly into the
modular phone line and then into your machine, and it records
directly from the line without any hum or problem.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. So that's what I did. In fact, I'm recordin' ya right now,
if that's O.K.?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, fine.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. So that's...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...checking out. Better check out, check a little bit if you're
using it for the first time.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
You know what I did, I tested it on your recorded message, and it
seemed to work O.K., so... And I just figured, well, I'll do like
a 5 or 10 minute interview and if it turns out O.K. then I could
just transcribe the interview and put it out on the Internet.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, certainly.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. I just wanted to, you know, make sure you understood that,
you know, all that stuff.
O.K. A few questions that came up, all right, was with the
Barings Bank, uh -- it's a relatively small bank. You know, like
a billion dollar failure...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well that's not accurate.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The total estimated, or expected losses may well exceed over $10
billion. And to understand that, you have to consult with experts
on derivatives.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
In unwinding a derivative trade that has gone bad, it depends on
the instruments that are involved. Here what was involved is the
price of yen and related matters. While they're unwinding these
transactions, the yen... um, not the yen (excuse me), the Nikei
Index may go down 2,000 points. And if that occurs, as some in
the securities industry expect (although they haven't been asked
about it or quoted in the financial press), if that occurs, that
the [Nikei] Index goes down 2,000 points, then the loss of the
derivative transactions that have gone sour will be very close to
*10* *billion* *dollars*. Not one billion, and not 900 million,
but $10 billion.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. 'Cause there...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It depends on the unwinding of the trades. Because the
derivatives transactions in question here were highly complicated
and are tied in with the Nikei Index.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Because there was some question. See, I get feedback, all
right? This thing goes out to a lot of readers and I get some
feedback from them. And it occurred to me that, now I had a
chance to, you know, explore some of these issues more in-depth
and kind of... 'Cause they had a lot of questions. I get a lot
of...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I've already talked off-the-record with highly-skilled people in
this field.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And they have explained it to me.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Understand something: um, how can I explain this quickly? As a
result of our efforts for over 30-some odd years in investigating
judicial corruption, over the years we've found out that such
corruption involves banks that are owned and operated by judges
and others. As a result, we became, we have become very adept at
financial research. And we have sources all over. And we have
talked to those sources, and they estimate that the loss, when
the Barings Bank transactions get unwound, would be close to $10
billion.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Along the line of sources, I know that you can't reveal
these people, but I'm thinking more in terms of, uh you had
mentioned before that you read, for example, the *Wall Street
Journal*. Are there other sources out there, as for reading, that
you would recommend?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well I would find it interesting, in the future, what the
*Economist*, which now is trying to get a larger readership in
the United States, that's a...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
That's a London...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...that's a London publication [CN -- a magazine], what their
next issue on this question may deal with. They may take a purely
British point of view, or they may take a point of view
sympathetic to the Queen's interest in Barings. Although the
Queen, also, has a stock brokerage -- I believe they're called
COATS(?) -- that handles, traditionally, a lot of the business of
the British monarchy.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. So the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Economist*, there's...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Oh, you mean to get a clear idea of what's going on?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Just some of the stuff you read.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...none of these publications, in my opinion, are gonna tell the
unvarnished truth about what is involved. And I can give the
reasons for that.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Because they all have their own special interests behind 'em?
Or...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well... Let me just list a few of the problems. One of the
largest securities firms in the world, Nomura Securities, N-o-m-
u-r-a, reportedly is, and has been, in worse financial condition
than Barings. However, the Bank of Japan, and others, may bail
them out. But some brokerages are quietly "red-flagging" them,
which is a trade term for avoiding somebody. For example, when
some brokerages became aware that there was a problem in Mexico,
they "red-flagged" Mexico. That's the way they tell their troops,
"No transactions with them" -- you see the point?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Likewise, Goldman-Sachs has come within a hair, reportedly, of
going under in respect to the "Mexican problem" -- the
devaluation and the expected defaults by Mexican corporations.
So the financial press, to help the established interests, wish
to play down the Barings thing as much as they possibly can as a,
just another "minor matter". Which I don't believe it is.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. There's a newsletter called *Strategic Investment*, put out
by Lord Rees-Mogg...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Right! I read it. I get copies. I don't subscribe, but friends of
mine send me copies from time to time.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Same... Yeah. Same with me.
I uh... In their latest issue, they're talkin' about this thing
about how Clinton's puttin' up what they call a "Berlin Wall" to
keep dollars from fleeing the country. Have you heard anything
about that?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well what I know that's related to it is, the dollar is hitting,
more and more, new, post-war lows. And the reason for that is
that expert traders in the dollar are expecting the possibility
that the *Deutschmark* will be the new, reserve currency of the
world, rather than the U.S. dollar. And that is based on
information that Clinton and his wife are "going to the wall"
[i.e. will face some degree of justice] soon.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
In other words, well, there's been leaks from the investigation
by the independent prosecutor which supports the idea that the
First Lady is, in the near future, most likely gonna be indicted.
And that will put a tremendous cloud over the Clinton White
House. And so, in advance of that, the dollar is being dumped --
let's put it that way.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. I'm just basically, for myself, I'm watchin' the *Wall
Street Journal* myself and just noticin' the dollar/yen thing,
how that's...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Notice the split in the *Wall Street Journal*: those that work on
the editorial page continue with their detailed items, which are
more *news* items than editorials, about Whitewater. The other
day they had a, um...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I saw it. Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...a front-page story that "pooh-poohed" Whitewater. The
editorials are closer to the truth than the front-page story --
which is a different faction within the *Wall Street Journal*. (I
know a lot about the back office politics of the *Wall Street
Journal*.)
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Yeah, like I say, this, I'm gonna have to keep this
relatively brief. I mean, there's a *lot* of things...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well then cut out those parts that you feel are not relevant.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
No, it's *all* relevant, 'til now. I'm just sayin' that I have to
kind of move along. You know, I'm lookin' for, at this point,
maybe a 10, 15 minute interview. Because I plan on transcribin'
the whole thing.
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 2, 1995
I spoke by phone with Sherman Skolnick of the Citizens' Committee
to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC]. Here is my transcription of that
interview.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right, what subjects do you particularly want to get into?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
There's just a few questions that people had, O.K.? And you've
answered, so far, fine; I'm happy with the answers you've given
me so far. And I'd like to get into more detail. You know, my
idea is, maybe call you up once a week, ten, fifteen minutes, and
just kinda, you know, "flesh out" things, and...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
My opinion is that the Barings Bank collapse is not an isolated
event. It is part of an ongoing series of scandals which, of
which the Whitewater scandal and the scandal, the series of
scandals in Italy, and in France -- there's some overriding
connection between them. In other words, different factions are
coming out of joint and are fighting with each other, and this is
what happens. And the financial press is *not* making any sense
out of it; they're dealt with as if they're all isolated
situations -- which they may not be.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. With this (movin' to a different subject), with this thing
of the 41 grand jury witnesses in Chicago, that you're sayin'
that the Justice Department has got an assassination team that
has been killin' people...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Uh, yes. The ones that originally contended that were the highly
skilled lawyers, including the former Attorney General, Elliott
Richardson, that represented the Inslaw company. And in rebuttal
to former judge Nicholas J. Bua's report on the grand jury
investigation of whether Inslaw was defrauded by the Justice
Department, Inslaw's attorneys filed certain detailed
descriptions, offering witnesses, that there is within the
Justice Department [an] unmarked section where there is a group
there that conducts domestic and foreign assassinations, and that
*they* were responsible for killing a key witness, a free-lance
journalist, by the name of Danny Casolaro.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, O.K. What, what some of my readers were interested in is
possibly a list of the names of the victims. I mean, you don't
have to read, you know, it out over the phone. I was thinking
maybe I would contact you by mail, askin' for a list of the
victims if you have...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I think we have compiled a great number of names. In a federal
court case that we brought, in the Fall of '92, on this question,
we accused Bua and others who were supervising the Inslaw federal
grand jury of not paying attention to the fact that *their* team
of investigators were in fact terrorizing and murdering
witnesses.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K....
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And we accuse, in the court record, a FBI agent named Mike
"Chuckie" Peters of the same.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. A lot of this I've pretty much covered already through the,
posted out on the Internet.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
And one other thing that people have kind of asked me questions
about is this thing that Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina and
their family were not actually killed in 1918.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well there have been a couple of books on this subject. And I
myself, in '74, with a group of my associates, went to New York
to spend two whole days interviewing Alexei Romanov, who contends
(and I believe he's correct) that he is the surviving son of Tsar
Nicholas II, and that his family were *not* murdered, as history
books state, in a basement in Siberia...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, so...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...but that they lived out their lives, protected by their
cousins, the British royal family, and that they were housed,
under another name, in Poland. And it's... well, you'd have to
know a lot about history, you'd have to know a lot about this
question, to understand the validity of what I'm saying.
Most of the royal families of Europe -- Russia, Germany, and
England -- are cousins. They're related...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...through Queen Victoria. And, so the uh... And, in 1970, in one
edition only, the *Chicago Tribune* wrote a story about this,
confirming from inside sources that the Tsar, his wife, and their
children were rescued and were not murdered in Ekaterenberg(?),
Siberia, as some had contended.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, so in the...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I think that I have extra copies of that, and I will mail you
one.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. What's... One reader...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And the *Tribune* has never recanted that story or corrected it.
It's a correct story, from United Press International.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. One reader said that there's, there were actually movies of
Tsar Nicholas and his family being shot by the Bolsheviks, from
1918.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Not true.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Not true. O.K. And another reader...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
What happened is that the Rockefellers, that held $400 million in
gold of the *Romanov* -- not the Russian government, but of the
*Romanov* private fortune -- have a great interest to circulate
those false stories. Otherwise they might have to disgorge the
money.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And they were the ones that financed the movie, in the early
'70s, called "Nicholas and Alexandra". And at the close of the
movie, it shows... uh, you know: the Tsar and his family being
shot to death.
You mean there's an *actual* movie of it happening? It's not
true.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And you would...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It's *not* true.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. You would say the same for supposed DNA evidence, that
that's not true?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Oh, you mean that recent stuff that came out of the post-Soviet
period there? I don't believe any of it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And *you* wouldn't believe any of it either, if you had spent two
entire days questioning and examining, you know, uh questioning
Alexei Romanov. I mean, he's got the Tsarist family face, which
cannot -- I mean, I brought artists along to look at that face!
You can't reproduce that face. You can't fake-up that face.
Further than that, since he was a hemophiliac, as a child he wore
braces. And we discussed some inside things about that, some of
the things about wearing braces (which, of course, I'm a
paraplegic myself) that he could not have known otherwise.
I mean, we tested him out on every possible aspect. And he didn't
flunk a single question, no.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, and what about this Anastasia? I myself am not totally
positive on this. It seems to me that... I mean, I know there was
this controversy over this woman...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well... the, what happened is, at the time that the Rockefellers
sponsored the Nicholas and Alexandra movie, to promote, to
further promote the idea that the Tsar had been murdered, the
reason for it is, the German high court at that time (which is
about 1971) had the case of a woman who used the name "Marian
Anderson", but who claimed that she was the surviving daughter,
Anastasia Romanov...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...the daughter of the Tsar. And she did not succeed in court,
but that does not mean that she didn't necessarily have a valid
case.
And then in the '50s, about 1957, um... what's her name? The
famous actress... did a movie called "Anastasia".
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, I know the... I've heard of the movie. And I can't recall
the actress either. [CN -- Ingrid Bergman(?)]
O.K. That's...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
In other words, there's been various efforts to further circulate
and promote these false stories that the Tsar, the Tsarina, and
their children were murdered. It did *not* happen. Those that...
And the story that ran in one edition of the *Tribune* in 1970 is
a *correct* story. They have never taken it back. They have never
corrected it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. I just want to close with sayin' most of my readers are very
interested in your material. And I'm real happy that you're
givin' me a chance to kind of expand on, you know, these things
that you're saying.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The Tsarist thing requires a lot of details. I have only
summarized a *very* *small* number of details.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Uh, we're makin' progress, O.K., is... What I'm sayin', is
that, before, I would put out these 5-minute commentaries that
sometimes would raise further questions and, that I couldn't...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And the other thing that's in my 5-minute message, which there's
gotta be a lot more details discussed, that you can't do it in 5
minutes -- and that is the secret pact between...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...the Pope and the Western powers, which expired in '93. And
there's a lot to be said about that.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And I'm just sayin', see what I have to do is I've gotta
transcribe this. And this should keep me busy for a few days,
anyway, gettin' this stuff out.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
If this stuff isn't clear, call me and if I'm here I certainly
will try to... I tried to summarize this quickly, but you know,
we're "documentors", you know what I mean?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And I tend to immediately supply highly detailed answers that...
well, would take...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...It would lengthen the thing out.
Let's just say, I don't make idle statements. Let's put it that
way.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And the documents, I told ya that, you know, I had made
copies of some of your commentaries and transcribed 'em. I sent
those out in the mail to ya. Like I said, you should be gettin'
'em Friday or Saturday.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
What is happening? In other words, some of the others on Internet
are getting back to you with interesting questions, huh?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! Yeah. And actually, I've *routinely* gotten these
questions, and I've been in a position of not really *knowing*,
you know? Sometimes I have *some* knowledge, myself, that I
can...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Understand what our problem is: I operate without a secretary.
And my associates are scattered all over. So we don't have a
"secretarial staff" to speak of. And I have a listed phone number
and address, and were I to get a lot of mail to my address, I
don't think I could, you know, answer it. In other words, if
questions came to me, how would I answer all these letters? Do
you see what I mean?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, sure.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So if they come to you, I'll... You ask your questions and I'll
do my best to answer 'em.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And when I get done with this, transcribin' this interview
and sendin' it out, I'll send ya a copy. Just so you know that
I'm representing you *verbatim* and I'm not...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Right. And we welcome more questions about the Barings Bank. We
are in touch with the most knowledgeable people on various
continents about it. We've... We know a great deal about it. So
we will have further messages, and I'll be glad to share the
information with you.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Thanks a lot for your time.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Thank you.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. 'Bye.
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
This is the story of two law firms that may get wrecked by
scandals: the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock, and Hopkins & Sutter,
of Chicago.
A telephone company in Arkansas is called, "All-Tel"(sp?). They
have a subsidiary called "Systematics"(sp?) which is a
proprietary espionage operation of the National Security Agency
[NSA]. Developed was a highly refined version of the Inslaw
software called PROMIS. Originally designed to keep track of the
caseloads of federal prosecutors, it was adapted to be used by
spy agencies to track people worldwide, by satellite. The
software has a "trapdoor" built into it. So, the NSA arranged to
sell it or give it to supposedly friendly or other spy agencies:
France, Sweden, Israel, and others. The "trapdoor" was a sort of
"Trojan Horse", enabling U.S. espionage to spy on other spy
shops. Systematics adapted it to be used through low-orbit
satellites, to spy on the computers of central banks -- South
America, Europe, and elsewhere.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is implicated, along with her two law
partners at the Rose Law Firm: Vincent Foster, jr. and Webster
Hubbell, who represented and helped work out strategies for the
spy work on banks by Systematics. Which means, the NSA could
arrange to manipulate or wreck the central banks of other
countries, friendly or otherwise. Foster, as White House aide,
never lived to persuade Clinton as President to stop the central
bank spying. Was that why Foster was "suicided" -- that is,
murdered?
When he was third in command of the Justice Department, Webster
Hubbell wrote a report trying to whitewash the Inslaw mess.
Facing huge money questions back at the Rose [Law] Firm, he
resigned Justice. To head off federal criminal indictments,
Hubbell "copped a plea". Now his "songs" for the Independent
Prosecutor may blow away the Rose Law Firm and Hillary! And blow
open the central bank spy scandal.
Tied to the Little Rock law firm has been Hopkins & Sutter, at
one time the largest outside attorneys for the federal S&L
bailout agency, Resolution Trust Corporation [RTC]. Hopkins had
apparent corrupt arrangements with the Rose [Law] Firm, putting
them into covering up S&L messes *far* from Arkansas -- that is,
in the Chicago area.
One such ruckus involved Arkansas bond broker, Dan Lasater --
cocaine smuggling for CIA -- and an S&L in west suburban
Oakbrook owned by former Illinois Governor Dan Walker, Sr. One
angle sent Walker to jail.
A Hopkins partner, Jay Steinberg, has been bankruptcy trustee in
the Andreuccetti case, where $50 million disappeared. An RTC
contingency fund, it was secretly transferred to Little Rock to
try to cover up a $47 million S&L embezzlement implicating Bill
and Hillary Clinton. Part of the money ended up, transferred by
Fuji Bank, to a Swiss dope laundry account for Bill Clinton --
code name: "Chelsea Jefferson". ("Chelsea" is his daughter's
first name, and "Jefferson" is Bill's middle name.)
Steinberg has also been bankruptcy trustee in the William
Stecker(sp?) case: Grayville Corporation. Hundreds of millions of
dollars disappeared; Steinberg does not seem to know where!
Like Watergate, the Whitewater affair involves murder, espionage,
and cover-up. In Watergate, the press fakers left out the part
about the banks and CIA... *and* are inclined to omit it now.
*And*, the liars and whores of the press do not see any link
between horrendous economic disruptions worldwide. Sources put it
in a nutshell: Hillary is going to jail, and the U.S. dollar is
going to Hell.
Call up your favorite news fakers and tell them to stop kidding
us, huh?
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "What the Dope Business is All About". (312) 731-
1505.
New message Monday; we change it several times a week.
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THE ANDREUCCETTI AFFAIR
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[...continued...]
[CN -- Note that the following does not necessarily
represent my own views or the views of Conspiracy Nation.]
29F. That on the said February 16, 1995, in the said hallway
outside the Courtroom 1858 as aforesaid, Parshall said to
plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti the following, to-wit:
We (meaning the Justice Department) have the right to go to Judge
Schwartz to tell him about your serious accusations against him.
Meaning to be understood by Parshall and was so understood by
plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti, that the Justice Department
reserves to themselves, through their agents and operatives, the
right to meet in secret with Judge Schwartz, Magistrate Lefkow
who is about to have ratification hearings before the Senate
Judiciary Committee on her appointment to the Federal District
Court bench in Chicago; and secret meetings with other federal
judges; for the purpose of coercing them into damaging plaintiffs
Skolnick and Andreuccetti in their persons, properties, and
liberties, to deter these plaintiffs in the instant case, and to
deter these plaintiffs in statements they make on their Cable TV
Show, on their recorded message on the phone known as HOTLINE
NEWS, and on statements they make which may be conveyed to
Internet and other circulation of plaintiffs' statements about
the corrupt acts and doings that are the subject matter of the
instant case.
29G. That Parshall, on behalf of the defendants and the
defendants acting and speaking by and through Parshall, made the
aforesaid statements on the said February 16, 1995, in the said
court hallway, in furtherance of all the foregoing, including but
not limited to all the matters stated in paragraphs 29E(a)(1) to
(g) inclusive.
29H. That the defendants, by and through Parshall, meant to be
understood, and were so understood by plaintiffs Skolnick and
Andreuccetti, that the defendants and the Justice Department
reserve the right to themselves to obstruct the due course of the
instant case, such as to have plaintiffs' pending motions for
leave arbitrarily rejected; that the defendants and the Justice
Department reserve the right to themselves to meet in secret with
Magistrate Lefkow or any other federal judge in the premises of
the instant case to try to convince them that these plaintiffs
are "bad people" whose rights are not entitled to be respected.
That defendants have already communicated and/or met in secret
with Lefkow, Schwartz and others herein identified.
29I. That on the said February 16, 1995, the IRS and the Justice
Department defendants, and the Justice Department, by and through
Parshall, loudly, forcefully, and repeatedly stated, and in so
doing, repeatedly emphasized the same, to-wit:
We have the right to go to Judge Schwartz to inform him of your
serious accusations.
Meaning to be understood by said defendants, and the Justice
Department, by and through Parshall, and so understood by
plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti, that the defendants already
had a dialogue and understanding, in secret, with Judge Schwartz;
that by blackmail and coercion directed against Judge Schwartz,
they and the Judge were in the process of arranging to jail these
plaintiffs and otherwise damage these plaintiffs, under the sham
and pretense of federal judicial authority, in plaintiffs'
persons, properties, and liberties; and in the process of causing
to be done, allowing, permitting, and condoning to be done, and
acquiescing in, the matters stated hereinbefore mentioned,
paragraphs 29E(a)(1) through (9) inclusive, adopted here by
reference as if verbatim herein set forth;
29J. That in so doing, IRS and Justice Department defendants, and
the Justice Department, by and through Parshall, by said loud,
repeated, and forceful emphasis, meant it to be understood, and
was and is so understood by plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti,
meant the same to be sinister and repeated threats against said
plaintiffs with all the meanings attached to the same, as in
paragraphs 29E(a)(1) through (9) inclusive, adopted herein by
reference as if verbatim here set forth, and paragraphs 29F
through 29I inclusive.
29K. That on the said February 16, 1995, after the IRS and
Justice Department defendants, and the Justice Department, by and
through Parshall, loudly, repeatedly, and forcefully conveyed
said threats to plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti, outside
said Courtroom 1858, in the Dirksen Federal Building, 219 South
Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604, the following occurred:
(a) From inside Courtroom 1858, a courtroom deputy came to the
door and said, to-wit:
We can hear what you are saying; move away from the door.
Meaning to be understood by the IRS and Justice Department
defendants, and the Justice Department, by and through Parshall,
and was so understood by plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti,
that U.S. Magistrate Judge Joan H. Lefkow overheard the said
sinister, forceful, loud, and emphatic threats against these
plaintiffs; and that said Magistrate was and is allowing,
permitting, and condoning the same, and acquiescing in the same,
with all of the aforementioned meanings attached to the same, as
hereinbefore stated: Because the IRS and Justice Department
defendants and the Justice Department, had and have the clout,
power, and authority to interfere with and obstruct Lefkow's
then-pending ratification to the position of U.S. District Judge
in Chicago by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the U.S. Senate.
29L. That in all of the said acts and doings, by the IRS and
Justice Department defendants, and the Justice Department, by and
through Parshall, that it was meant to be understood and was and
is so understood by plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti,
defendants are actively obstructing, deterring, and intimidating
these plaintiffs, and defendants have damaged these plaintiffs by
putting them in fear for their lives:
(a) Because plaintiff Andreuccetti, an Italian-American, has
refused and failed to co-operate with the traditional Italian and
Sicilian mafia linked to the IRS and Justice Department
defendants and their joint corruption, as set forth in Count One
of the Second Amended Verified Complaint, paragraphs 2 through 22
inclusive, adopted herein by reference as if verbatim here set
forth; such as, top IRS officials having stolen millions of
dollars of property of Andreuccetti for their personal benefit
and use; such as, said defendants being secret partners in mafia
vending machine companies in Chicago Heights, Illinois; such as,
said defendants condoning, permitting, and acquiescing in
fraudulent tax returns filed by a corrupt Bankruptcy Trustee in
the name of Joseph Andreuccetti; such as, said defendants, and
their confederates, covering up for corrupt financial entities
such as Household International, First National Bank of Cicero,
First Midwest Bank, Pinnacle Banc Group as the alter ego of Bank
of Credit and Commerce International, Vatican Bank chief Paul
Marcinkus and his godson/nephew falsely purporting to be
Andreuccetti's business partner and engaging in government-
protected and condoned embezzlements; such as, defendants and
their FBI confederates murdering key witnesses to these acts and
doings, including but not limited to Bankruptcy Auctioneer
Wallace Lieberman; that it is a matter of undisputed court record
that the Rodham family crony, John E. Gierum, has confessed to
these plaintiffs that the Clinton White House is trying to frame
him about the 50 million [dollar] transfer.
(b) Because plaintiff Skolnick, perceived by the IRS and Justice
Department defendants, and the Justice Department, by and through
Parshall, as being in a physically vulnerable and helpless
security position to protect himself; Skolnick being a paraplegic
invalid, living alone at home, and he travels in a wheelchair,
and drags himself about only a few steps on braces and crutches;
and thus vulnerable and subject to defendants aforesaid sinister
and repeated threats;
(c) Because plaintiff Skolnick, a member of a minority, namely of
the Jewish race and religion, has in the view of the defendants,
stepped out of place, and thus by said sinister and forceful
threats, as aforesaid, will be "taught a lesson" by the IRS and
Justice Department defendants, and the Justice Department, by and
through Parshall; to intimidate plaintiff Skolnick for his having
attempted through his recorded phone commentaries and his Cable
TV Show "Broadsides", and through Internet, to bring the
corruption of the IRS and Justice Department defendants, and the
Justice Department, to public attention. By putting these
plaintiffs in fear for their lives, defendants have obstructed
justice in this case.
29M. That the defendants, by and through Parshall, meant it to be
understood and it was so understood by plaintiffs Skolnick and
Andreuccetti, that in furtherance of all of the foregoing, that
the IRS and Justice Department defendants can, with impunity,
cause, condone, permit, and acquiesce in the following happening
to these plaintiffs:
(a) that one or more federal judges in Chicago can be coerced,
activated, and persuaded by the Justice Department and the IRS
and Justice Department defendants, by and through Parshall, that
plaintiffs Skolnick and Andreuccetti could and should be
arbitrarily jailed and/or in other ways punished, irrespective of
said plaintiffs' federal constitutionally guaranteed rights,
privileges, and immunities, and without regard to the law and the
facts; that said plaintiffs' rights, because they are labeled by
defendants as "bad people", are not to be respected, similar to
the way the high court ruled black people are to be dealt with,
in the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1856.
(b) that bodily harm can be inflicted on plaintiffs Skolnick and
Andreuccetti, with impunity, such as the upwards of thirty
persons apparently murdered in the Whitewater Affair to which the
instant case is linked; and that the defendants and the Justice
Department are in a position to see to it that such murders are
covered up as "accidents" or "suicides". By all these acts and
doings, defendants have damaged these plaintiffs by putting them
in fear for their lives.
(signed) Joseph Andreuccetti, plaintiff, pro se
(signed) Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiff, pro se
Plaintiff Sherman H. Skolnick adds the following to Count Five,
following paragraph 15:
15B. Plaintiff Skolnick re-alleges paragraphs 29D through 29M(b)
inclusive, as though the same were verbatim herein set forth, of
Count Three.
(signed) Sherman H. Skolnick, plaintiff, pro se
[CN -- Document accompanied by signed Verifications by Plaintiffs
under the provisions of 28 U.S.C.A. Sec. 1746, and signed by
Andreuccetti and Skolnick.]
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[CN Editor -- I cannot vouch for the accuracy of *all* of the
following. It may or may not be true, I just don't know. However
I consider Skolnick to be an honest and careful investigator.]
[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
the Courts [CCCC]." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]
Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
9800 South Oglesby.
One of the great secrets of the highly corrupt mass media is the
buying and selling of jobs, particularly in radio and TV. The way
it works in the Chicago market is typical of the nation. There is
a group of six celebrity lawyers here who work the racket. A
would-be job holder has to agree to pay fifteen percent of the
first year's salary of a three-year contract. Payment has to be
made in front, in cash. Five percent goes to the union business
agent, five percent to the celebrity lawyer, and five percent to
the news director or radio and TV station manager.
One such job holder was somehow dismissed before the end of the
first year. He talked off-the-record with a media critic and
legal researcher. He told them that he cannot be fired! Because,
after all -- he bought the job! And it belongs to him! He wanted
an opinion as to whether he can sue for damages. He was upset
when informed of the pertinent principle of law: you can't sue to
get something that is against public policy. And buying and
selling jobs is opposed by public policy. The same judge-made law
applies to bank robbers: they cannot sue for police brutality
that may result if they are caught on the way from a bank stick-
up.
One such lawyer who reportedly knew a lot about all this was Saul
Foos, one of the nation's top agents for broadcasting stars. He
had a couple of interesting apparent sidelines. For instance, he
was a director of a bank in the north suburb of Deerfield, same
place Admiral Stansfield Turner is from. The Admiral was director
of Central Intelligence in the Carter administration. Did Foos do
a little money laundering through his bank? Some think so.
And Foos was charged with the federal crime of defrauding more
than 100 investors of millions of dollars. Some were his
broadcasting clients, promised the guarantee of no losses and up
to forty percent returns in some of the scams, including for non-
existent building deals, commodity trading, and such. Foos has
also been pushed into bankruptcy court. Naturally, the bankruptcy
trustee (for him) is William A. Brandt, jr., previously in charge
of CIA proprietary companies worldwide. According to documents
released to us under Freedom of Information, Brandt ran CIA's
covert operations, terminating the front companies by phony
bankruptcies when necessary.
Another lawyer in the position of understanding the buying and
selling of jobs is Joel Weisman, also of Deerfield. He's also a
celebrity lawyer, and, for many years, runs a local TV panel show
whitewashing media lies. Through his law partners, Weisman has
been a crony of crooked judges. Cynics claim Joel reportedly
knows how to buy a broadcast job or "fix" a court case.
The celebrity lawyers also quietly settle sex cases. Former
office workers of CBS's channel 2 here helped us expose an
embezzlement racket. They are sorry they settled -- too cheap --
charges they made against their bosses at WBBM-TV, who apparently
could not keep their hands to themselves! Working in bookkeeping,
they document how, over a period of 20 years, channel 2 embezzled
some $40 million belonging to the network. (We first exposed the
embezzlement in 1983. The corrupt honchos at IRS, of course, are
silent.)
Talking about jobs, up to about 1988 CBS News was the recipient
of huge subsidies, from CIA, to finance money-losing foreign news
bureaus in spy-world spots. CBS lost the covert funds and had to
close overseas offices and lay off a lot of journalist-spies. The
subsidy thereafter went to ABC News.
In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most
Monday evenings.
Play it again: "The Corrupt New York Federal Reserve". (312) 731-
1505.
New message Wednesday; we change it several times a week.
Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the
latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political
assassinations, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 6, 1995
On March 6, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-chief, Conspiracy Nation
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I looked in the Tsar file...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...and I sent you a copy of a very rare article from the Chicago
Tribune that ran in *one* edition, in '70.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I put it in the mail Saturday; you should get it.
It says that documents were released, apparently after 50 years
(this is 1970, in the article)...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...that the Tsar and the Tsarina, and their family, actually were
not murdered but were rescued by the British royalty, their
cousins.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And my guess is that the copyright would've expired on that,
so I could just, say, type it out and probably put it on the
Internet.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I wouldn't worry about the copyright. I wrote a letter to the
editors a year ago about that article, and they've never
acknowledged at the *[Chicago] Tribune*, or responded, or ran it,
or anything.
They....... Two things: they released fraudulent details, I
believe them to be fraudulent, that some bones, otherwise not
identifiable, in the bottom of a mine shaft in Siberia...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...that they did DNA tests on it and they said that those were
the Tsar, the Tsarina, and the children.
False. It's false.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Secondly, the guy, Richards -- some guy gave you an e-mail back
that there was a book showing that Alexei Romanov [gives
spelling]... But the book by a guy named Richards, O.K.? Alexei
told me about this *21* *years* *ago*! Richards is the pen name
of a former gestapo official.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Would you expect a former gestapo official to tell you the
truth!?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
No.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
What has been published, over the last 30 years and so on, in
various books...
Alexei used a Polish name: Michael Golenieski. Michael Golenieski
was a top official of the Polish counter-intelligence. O.K.? And,
according to published accounts, when he defected -- during the
time that he arrived in this country in January of '61, a few
days before JFK was inaugurated as the President. He was
inaugurated January 20th, '61. O.K.?
He -- Golenieski -- arrived between the November '60 election,
and the January '61 inauguration. By special act of Congress he
was made a U.S. citizen and promised $100,000 per year. He has
been only getting $5,000 per year. *But*, the reason he was very
useful to American Intelligence: his information was so accurate
that over 400 Soviet spies were identified in the West and
arrested. So how much of a charlatan and a liar could he be!?
O.K. This guy Richards, which is a pen name for an apparent
gestapo official, left over from the Second War, is not to be
trusted! The books that *are* to be trusted are Antony Summers',
the -- I believe the name of his book is *The Rescue of the
Tsar*...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...and another book -- I don't know the author -- but it's called
*Imperial Agent*. And it tells how the Tsar, the Tsarina, and the
children were rescued through Vladivostok. And they went all the
way around, with a British cruiser, ended at Malta. And the Tsar
and his wife and the children took up residence in Poland. And
Alexei was given a false name -- Michael Golenieski. He was
trained in Marxism, and became a top Polish Intelligence official
at the time, right after the Second War, when Russia took over
the Warsaw government.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And so he knew all the Soviet spies, which he successfully
identified -- including, I think there was a spy who purportedly
was a Swede, name (if my memory serves) Winterstrom(sp?).
But there's things published. So anybody named Richards that says
that he's a charlatan, doesn't know.
Besides which, in '70, there was a raft of British documents
released which the *Tribune*, in a wire service story, referred
to -- that I sent you a copy of, O.K.?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And these documents show it is most likely that the Tsar and the
family were rescued.
And the name of William Wiseman, a U.S. diplomat (I don't have
the article in front of me; I sent it to you)... But William
Wiseman, he was given money to facilitate this by President
Woodrow Wilson. That's referred to in the article.
So anybody that says that Alexei is a charlatan and a fraud does
not know the pertinent details.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Well...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I spent two entire days questioning him. The man has got a
*profound* understanding of American history. For example, he
knows about the Alaska purchase in 1867, how it was done at
midnight. And it was called, "Seward's Folly".
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Yeah, O.K. It's fairly well-known it's called "Seward's
Folly", but as far as it bein' done at midnight, I had never
heard that.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Oh yeah. It was done through a strange bank in D.C. at midnight.
Alexei has got a profound understanding of history.
And the reason, the reason... And when you read this article,
that the *Tribune* has never recanted or renounced, you'll see
why. Because *if*, if the major media were to reveal this major
fraud of the 20th century, they'd have to re-do a lot of history
books. Why? The Romanov family -- not as the Tsar, but the
private gold fortune...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, it went to Rockefeller.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah. To the Chase Bank, which later became the Chase Manhattan
Bank.
If you know anything about numbers and compound interest, that
$400 million, at $20 an ounce [in 1918]...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...and now it's $376 an ounce, for gold. And *compounded*
interest -- that money there is more than the whole bank! You see
what I mean? And the Rockefellers, right after these documents
came out, in '70 -- released after 50 years, by the British
government -- is when they made the fraudulent movie, "Nicholas
and Alexandra". And at the close of it they show the Tsar and his
family getting shot against a wall in a basement in
Ekatereinberg, Siberia.
Across the road from where the Tsar and his family were kept was
a house, occupied by British Intelligence. You understand? The
British royal family and the Tsar are cousins. They saved 'em!
Read this article when you get it in the mail. You'll see the
point.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, all right. You know, this is somethin' that I really
hadn't...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
[*Sotto voce*] If you put this on Internet, you may cause...
*This*... You can quote me: My opinion is that this is one of the
great historical frauds of the 20th century.
And when you read the article... Whoever did the article from UPI
even *quotes* an American retired diplomat, who says... He gives
some reasons, there, *why* the British and American government
want this hushed up. *And*, if you're a scholar of history, you
know that when the Russians made a peace treaty with the Germans,
early in 1917, called the Brest-Litovsk agreement?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
*Part* of it has been secret ever since! This article refers to
it. There is a section of that secret understanding, which...
It's an agreement between the oncoming Bolshevik government, and
the Germans and others, that forevermore it will be kept secret
that the Tsar and his family were, in fact, rescued. They were
not killed. But that, they will release details as if they were
murdered.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right. Along those lines, I've heard it said by some people
that this whole Bolshevik Revolution was really part of Wall
Street's plan or something.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right. Wall Street and the... I think the name of the book is
*Wall Street and the Rise of the Bolsheviks* by Anthony Sutton.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
*There*, he goes into the documented study how those at the tip
of Manhattan, on Wall Street, *financed* Lenin. And in fact, he
refers to old issues of the *New York Times* of 1918 where it was
*admitted* that millions and millions of dollars in gold went
from Wall Street to finance the Bolshevik government as... Well,
the British financed the Kerensky government, which forced out
the, forced the Tsar to abdicate. And until he died in 1959...
Kerensky came to the United States. And he was a British agent.
But he didn't pull the government together. And then he was
replaced by the Bolsheviks, who were financed by American big
business!
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U.S. AIDED RESCUE OF CZAR NICHOLAS, BRITISH HINT
[*Chicago Tribune*, Dec. 14, 1970. Note that this article only
ran in one/some editions -- it was pulled from subsequent
editions.]
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- British government documents which
recently were placed in the public record office in London
indicate that President Woodrow Wilson backed a secret mission to
Russia which may have resulted in the rescue of Czar Nicholas and
his family in 1918.
The documents, copies of which have been received by researchers
in New York, state that the U.S. government placed $75,000 at the
disposal of Sir William Wiseman, a partner in the New York
banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. It asked the British government
to make a like contribution to the "scheme" which is linked to
other documents still in secret British files.
-+- 3 Months After Abdication -+-
A document carrying notations indicating British cooperation had
the approval of Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, then permanent under-
secretary of state for foreign affairs, is dated June 20, 1917,
three months after Nicholas' abdication.
It was addressed to Sir Eric Drummond, then secretary to Lord
Balfour, secretary of state for foreign affairs. A June 25
document signed by Drummond says $75,000 was placed to Wiseman's
credit at the Morgan bank by the British government.
Recent research indicates that the Bolsheviks "faked" the
execution of the Romanov family in Ekaterinburg on July 29, 1918.
They allowed the Romanovs to go to a Russian port where they were
to be picked up by an allied ship. At least one, and perhaps
several American agents have been placed in the area of these
purported operations at the right time.
-+- Evidence in Treaty -+-
There is also mounting evidence that the unpublished complete
text of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed March 3, 1918,
contained a guarantee from the Lenin government that no harm
would come to the Romanovs, according to researchers. The short-
lived treaty was pressed on the Bolshevik government by the
Germans whose emperor, William II, was a cousin of Czar Nicholas.
A retired U.S. official, who has aided the investigations and
asked to remain anonymous, said continued secrecy on the part of
the British and American governments "frustrates or makes liars
out of all those who are ridiculed for stating the assassination
never took place." He said some who participated in the rescue
are still alive and "should be interviewed."
"It is a preposterous claim that full disclosure would strain the
relations among any of the involved governments," he said. "A
whole new breed has taken over in all the chancelleries.
Certainly there can be little fear anywhere of a Czarist
revival."
-+- Reconstruct Events -+-
According to a reconstruction of events based on new evidence,
the czar, czarina and their five children were spirited from
Ekaterinburg by a team of international agents in July, 1918. The
couple and two of their children were evacuated from Odessa on
the Black Sea under cover of an allied landing in December, 1919,
and taken to Malta on a U.S. naval vessel which had the British
cover name of H.M.S. Howan. The actual name is not yet known.
At Malta, where the Americans had a base under the command of
Rear Adm. William H. Bullard, the Romanovs waited while the
British government hesitated about giving them asylum and finally
decided against it. At least three Romanovs were taken to Trieste
on a British battleship, the H.M.S. Lord Nelson, and travelled to
Vienna and finally to Warsaw where they went underground.
At least one of the Romanovs, who had split up after
Ekaterinburg, made it to Poland by Dec. 1918, according to the
sources.
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 6, 1995
On March 6, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-chief, Conspiracy Nation
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[...continued...]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK [continues]:
It's a documented thing; it's not subject to rumors; it's
actually so.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, why did they do that? Why would they finance a
communist revolution?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well... The right wing has explained it again and again. I did an
interview with a known author there. I forget his name, but I did
a 5-minute interview which I ran a few months ago. Some... I'm
not an expert on philosophy, so, uh he described it as a Hegelian
principle.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Last time we talked...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
"Antithesis for the purposes of synthesis."
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that makes sense.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
In other words, they own both sides.
I know, you're gonna have to scratch your head and review what
has happened with the Moscow government, since '89. In other
words, were the Soviets "the big, bad wolf" for 40 years in order
to help the American defense industry? Played up here...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...that "their submarines are off-shore" and "their bombers are
threatening us" and "blah blah" and "blah-blah". And then all of
a sudden, the Moscow government disintegrated.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
By the way: I don't know if you saw Internet this morning.
Somebody called me up, very early.
Reuters, or some...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! With the Missing in Action? The congressman found those
Vietnam veterans. Is that it?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
No, no.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It is not in the American press, *yet*. So far as I know. But
Reuters, or somebody, interviewed that guy Leeson.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Leeson, yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Barings Bank.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
He says that *if* they proceed to prosecute him, or try to send
him back to Singapore (where, he says they will murder him in
Singapore)... But if they try to prosecute him, he will name
names, that the top-most level of the British government is in
this deal involved, that they okayed it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right. And that's on Reuters then.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I think it's Reuters. Somebody read it to me very early in the
morning. From Internet. It was posted on Internet.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Did they happen to say which newsgroup it was in?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Uh... I think they said Reuters, but I wouldn't bet on it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
But the point is, this guy Leeson (if we are to believe him) is
threatening to bring down the London government. The French
government is about to be toppled because of the spy scandal. The
Rome government has been decimated by all those big shots being
hauled away to the jail in Milan.
Now, as a result (thanks to you) of my items being on Internet, I
have gotten to know chief researchers in the financial field,
worldwide, who call me, and use their conference facilities to
put me in touch with other guys worldwide, and such. And the
consensus is, that the American press is not giving the reasons
for the collapse of the dollar. Which is ongoing this morning,
you know?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The reason that the Europeans give is that they have advance,
inside information, that in the next 90 days will be the downfall
of the Clinton White House, because of the expected indictment of
Hillary.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
How is the press... You know, the press has kind of been ignoring
this for so long. How is the press gonna suddenly do an about-
face on this? And...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well you gotta... Let me explain the position of people that I
know on the different exchanges, the Merck, and the Big Board,
and so on.
They says, "Skolnick. I help you with your information. Don't
tell me what's gonna be next month. Tell me what's gonna be
*tonight*! Call me at home, so that I can do something at the
opening of the markets tomorrow."
CONSPIRACY NATION:
[Laughs]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I says, "I'll tell ya what's gonna be in six..."
"I don't wanna hear it, Skolnick. You owe me a favor, Skolnick. I
helped you with this, this, and this. And a friend of mine in the
media gave you that story, so many years ago. Hey! You owe me
one."
I says, "Yeah, tell me." I says, "I'm not in the business of
bartering or brokering financial information, because that would
get me into financial interest. I have no financial interest in
this, and then and therefore I do my best to stay objective."
You see what I mean?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
But there are *some* that have been quietly interviewing most of
the most knowledgeable people -- not just me, but others all over
the world -- about the Whitewater thing and the possibility of
Hillary getting indicted, for the purpose of trying to figure out
where the market is and whether it will go beyond 4200 on the
Dow-Jones, and so on. I'm talking about chief researchers of
major brokerages that have -- I don't know what the word is --
befriended me, became acquainted with me... you know.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
They believe (some of 'em) that their European colleagues have
got inside information about Kenneth Starr, the independent
prosecutor, about to "drop the boom" or leak out stuff about
Hillary, which will roil up our central government and make
Clinton to be more of a wimp than he is, so that nobody that's a
diplomat will wanna shake hands with him on-camera anymore. You
know what I'm sayin'?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I notice he doesn't go abroad very much. I don't know if
you've...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well that's because nobody... [*sotto voce*] The chief currency
traders that I have talked to... Hey! I've been doin' this since
'58. I will never mention who they are. Doesn't matter *who*
calls me up and says, "Skolnick. You've gotta tell me who they
are." I will *not* to say who they are! Their names, and details
of where they're located, are confidential.
But they say that their colleagues in Europe are convinced that
there will be a downfall of the American central government in 90
days. In any case, by June. And so, they are dumping the dollar.
And as much as the federal reserve drops money down that rathole,
it only makes matters worse. It just gets worse, and worse, and
worse, and worse.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. Do you foresee a military coup of some sort?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, you're gonna find this, also, very odd. But... I talk to
everybody. And I have been... I and associates of mine have been
put in touch with certain retired Generals, who -- are not to be
quoted!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
But they talk, off-the-record, along the lines of the Admirals
and Generals that are named, by names, in the book *Silent Coup*.
He says there was 30 of 'em that overthrew Nixon. Their point, at
that time, was "It would be too messy." In other words, they,
like... They accused JFK of treason, at the Bay of Pigs. They
accused Nixon of treason with the Hanoi government. They didn't
want to stage an assassination in an open car; the public
wouldn't buy it a second time. So they set him up, with these
double-agents: James McCord and the rest of 'em.
Only the Brits wrote a paperback book about the double-agents. I
have it here. I don't remember the title. Two British writers, I
don't remember their names, wrote a paperback book about McCord
and the others being double-agents who... The guard there took
the tape off the door...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, that's...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And McCord put the tape back! So...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
...Yeah...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...there was somebody in the building! He put the tape back on
the door lock again. Did you see...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, I...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
McCord and them guys wanted to get caught!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, that's fairly well known.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And I think I told you. Did I send you the thing about the plane
crash?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Uh, no you didn't. You know, I've been workin' on the
Andreuccetti case.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right. But anyway, I got a thing about the plane crash.
Hunt's wife had $2 million that she blackmailed off of Nixon,
'cause Hunt and his wife had inside information that Nixon was
involved in the plot against JFK in Dallas.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I take that back. You may have sent me that thing on the plane
crash.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It's an orange-colored thing. I sent it to ya.
[...to be continued...]
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 6, 1995
On March 6, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-chief, Conspiracy Nation
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[...continued...]
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. I... All your stuff...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...That's O.K. It's in very small type and you didn't get around
to read it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
No. In fact, I think I even put it on the Internet, now that you
mention it.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
O.K. They got $2 million -- falsely described as "10 thou" [i.e.
10 thousand] by the press, O.K.? But the deal is, they didn't
want to blow out Nixon's brains, so they set him up at the
Watergate. And Woodward, who's...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
He's CIA, right?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Naval Intelligence.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...was the front -- not a *journalist*, understand...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And he had *all* the inside information, as if a secret contact
met him in an underground parking garage -- all of it B.S. [i.e.,
"Bullsh**"], O.K.?
*Now*, the Europeans *apparently* have... Well it was European
journalists, together with some retired CIA people, that
uncovered Clinton's secret Swiss accounts, by way of the Fuji
Bank and the Grand Caymans -- that $50 million that we described
went to Little Rock, to the Caymans, to Switzerland, and is there
in the name of Chelsea Jefferson.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, this all ties in with the Andreuccetti case. And
that's...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
...You sent me a lot of those...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And, and, and the thing is, one of Kenneth Starr's people told me
-- not to flatter me! -- that the thing that we have been working
on -- about the 50 million?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
-- is one of the most crucial points. They've already got the
date. They know the money arrived in Little Rock and went by way
of Fuji Bank, to the Caymans and off to Switzerland. And it got
mixed in with the Mena cocaine money, O.K.? Clinton's "cut" for
the deal. All right?
The thing is, *they* claim, that if that story ever gets into the
popular press it will topple the government. That is *their*
words: "It will topple the government."
So, they didn't tell me that to flatter me. 'Cause these are
really hard-nosed investigators. You understand what I'm saying?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And, uh...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
You know, I had noticed last night that, just a brief spot on,
that there's four Supreme Court justices that are under
investigation for acceptin' perks, or somethin' like that? Have
you heard anything about that?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
No, no.
But understand what the problem is: there's a concerted attack on
the central government. I don't want to pick up on LaRouche's
theories, I'm not a supporter of his -- I stay neutral, regarding
him.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, I... I'm neutral also. He has some good ideas, but...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
He claims that it's a British conspiracy.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Uh... It's the same thing as Watergate. You know what I mean?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
They want Clinton out.
Hey, look how many months it took for Watergate.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, that dragged on.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...March of '73, to August of '74. And as you... As I have told
you, I got inside information from a top journalist, whose editor
killed a story about Spiro Agnew. And I was 6 months ahead of the
parade. And I must be a good 6 months -- oh, I'm at least a
*year* or more ahead of the parade on the Al Gore scandal.
And notice, the *Wall Street Journal* is going at the *third*-in-
command, the Speaker of the House, Gingrich.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I just got the *Journal* just now. I was just out gettin' it. So
I haven't read it yet.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well not today, but in the past they've run very negative stories
about Gingrich.
So in other words, they've got enough goods to terminate the 3
top people of our government: the President, the Vice-President,
the Speaker of the House. And what they want to do is cause a bad
situation where they can put in Jay Rockefeller. Remember, they
had a plan to put in Nelson...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, I remember that, O.K.? And what? They were first gonna get
rid of Al Gore and then Jay Rockefeller was gonna come in and...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I'll tell ya somethin': in '75, I had the same recorded lines,
you know?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And every one of my lines... At the time, I had older equipment,
that required more phones. I had 30 lines coming in to "1100"
[i.e., 312-731-1100], O.K.? They were *all* *blocked*! Because I
was running accurate stories about 3 genuine plots against Gerald
Ford. Um... "Squeeky"...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Fromme.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...Fromme. Uh... that other woman. What the Hell was her name
there?
There were 3 genuine plots. And the secret [Secret]... I called
up a friend of mine, in the media, that I know. And he says,
"Skolnick. You're on the *top* of the Security Index. It's a
wonder that there's anything still going at your house, *any*
kind of a utility." I was gonna picket the phone company, in '75.
It was just no way... There was no way that... At the time I had
about 35 lines, total. I got newer equipment now, that drops the
lines quicker and therefore I don't need that many lines, see?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And there was no way that anybody could reach my message, during
that period when we ran exclusive stories about the plots against
Gerald Ford.
But what I'm *getting* to is, if there's something happened to
Gerald Ford, who was the un-elected Vice-President? Nelson
Rockefeller!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Do you see the point?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. And then... Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So in other words, there was a scheme to put in Nelson
Rockefeller as the un-elected... 'Cause a lot of people don't
like his name. And they don't like Jay Rockefeller, just because
of the name. Although he's very pleasant to... when you see him
on the television.
So there apparently is a plot to put in Jay Rockefeller as the
new President. So they're... They're cranking up attacks on all
three of 'em: Clinton, Gore, and Gingrich. They're gonna get rid
of all three of 'em.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. You know, I have some questions on the Andreuccetti case.
I'm slowly but surely gettin' those documents out there. I kind
of...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well what are the questions.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right. This is how I understand it so far: Andreuccetti owned
the Kingspoint Condominiums. And did he own some other...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, they are 5 buildings. I don't know how many dozen...
hundred... apartments, that are, over here, called
"condominiums".
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
They're giant buildings, O.K.? In a whole development there.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And when the gold was purportedly put under Building Four...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. So that this is...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The cement trucks that came there were pouring cement like the
cement was going all the way down to China.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
So there's... You mean there's also this thing with the gold, all
right? And that gold was what? The gold that was smuggled out of
Italy?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Right. And the one that was part of that unit, keeps, on purpose,
running into me: Illinois appellate court judge Anthony Scariano,
a former sergeant in the O.S.S. And he was part of the unit that
had the gold in a cave! In the last twenty-some odd years, since
1973 (that's 22 years), I have interviewed most of the members of
his unit. Scariano survived *five* military and civil
investigations in the 12 years following '44, when the gold
disappeared.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
So that's the reason...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And then he came up to me, two years ago, in the presence of two
of my friends -- one of 'em being Andreuccetti -- and says,
"Skolnick, I saw your T.V. show," (this was... We did a T.V. show
in... We *taped* it in October of '92). He says, "There's some
inaccuracies there."
I says, "Well, Tony, I don't have no case pending in your court.
So you could talk to me. What's inaccurate?"
So he turns to federal district judge Hubert Will, a senior,
semi-retired judge who was walking with him -- and ran *right*
into my wheelchair, on purpose or otherwise -- and he turns to
him and he says, "Well. Skolnick's show referred to two people in
my unit that murdered the Major and dumped him in a lake."
And then he went on to describe him. And from that I got to
understand that Tony and others felt it was justified to murder
the Major. Because the gold in the cave... The Major was gonna do
what some would consider treason. He was gonna turn over the
Italian gold to the *partisans*, the Italian... uh, the
*communistas*, the Italian Communist Party!
[...to be continued...]
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 6, 1995
On March 6, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-chief, Conspiracy Nation
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[...continued...]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK [continues]:
So Tony turned to Judge Will. So now here's two CIA guys: Judge
Will, before taking the bench, had been head of counter-
intelligence in Europe, for CIA. O.K.?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So here's these two CIA guys walking through the lobby of the
courthouse, and they walk *right* into me, on purpose or
otherwise, and he starts talkin' to me about the show we did
about the gold under Andreuccetti's building, see?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Um-hmm [understands].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So he made a, he made a -- what do you call it? He made an
apology for the thing. Like it was justified. That *his* *people*
were justified in murdering the Major and moving away the gold,
'cause the Major, the head of the unit in charge of this cave
full of gold, was gonna turn over the gold to the Italian
communist party.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. But they kept the gold for themselves though.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
No, no, no...
The gold had been gathered up from the Vatican, from King
Emmanuel. The House of Savoy. Because at the close of the war,
King Emmanuel's property in Italy was forfeited. The details of
how the new parliament in Rome forfeited his property started to
be run in the book, a reference book called *Statesman: 1946*.
And part of it is re-printed in the '72 issue of *Statesman*. If
you get to a good reference library, you can see that. The House
of Savoy.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Who is an heir to the House of Savoy? Joseph Andreuccetti.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. The plot thickens. Let me just run through a few basic
questions though here...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right. Well let me just tell you one more detail.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The reason they've kept Joe [i.e., Joseph Andreuccetti] in court,
going on the eleventh year, is they wanted to tie up his
signature. Now if you understand law, you would see the point. A
person's signature has no financial validity when there is a
bankruptcy trustee in charge of you. If you get pushed into
bankruptcy, your signature is crap! You can't *do* anything with
it, financially. So that the trustee...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Jay Steinberg?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...Jay Steinberg,
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...Hopkins & Sutter, RTC, the $50 million transfer, and all of
it... The reason they keep Joe pending in court is, it continues
to invalidate his signature.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
O.K.? It's his signature that is so damn important.
Then, when you compare that with the Lynette Redmer interview
(which the government has threatened me over, which they got an
injunction against me and Joe over it), you can see what the
importance is.
And there is Scariano, part of that O.S.S. unit, O.K.? He turns
to this CIA intelligence chief, Judge Will, and he starts
referring to "Skolnick's cable TV show". In my presence! In the
presence of Joe and another associate.
Do you see the point?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Uh... It's a complex case, O.K.? And I'm workin' on it. And I'm
goin' through the court documents. And I got the, I jumped ahead
to the *last* documents and put them out, because it seemed to me
that...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Listen. I'm thinking about writing a book. I'm working on a more
detailed story for *Media Bypass*.
[CN -- *Media Bypass* is a magazine, as I recall, handled
independently by Tom Valentine, host of *Radio Free America*.
It has no direct connection to *Spotlight*, to my knowledge.
Skolnick's article, to appear in the next issue as I
understand, deals with the Whitewater scandal. Skolnick has
said he would send me a copy, but even if he remembers to
send me a copy of it, I hesitate to distribute it, due to a
recent "learning experience" I had in regard to my
distribution of what I believed to be a summary of another
author's material. So -- bottom line -- if you can find the
magazine, read Skolnick's article. I will do what I can about
trying to possibly summarize Skolnick's article, but I can't
guarantee I will be doing so soon, if at all.]
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The point of the thing is, the largest bank in Italy, owned in
part by the Pope, has got an office here, O.K.? Banca Nazionale
de Lavoro.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Banca Nazionale de Lavoro.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Now if you knew banking, you would see my point. I'll make the
point, it'll be on the tape, and you can study it.
The bank has the most sound collateral in the world. They have
got it in with this gold, which is good collateral. Do you know
what I mean? It's like...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! Sure.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
They got, like, a warehouse receipt. It's not like a federal
reserve note, that's got nothin' behind it. Their -- whatever you
wanna call it -- their IOUs, that they issue as bank notes, from
this bank, with the branch in Chicago, is secretly backed up by
the gold that's under the ground in Building Four! [laughs]
CONSPIRACY NATION:
[laughs]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I told ya what happened before our show went on the air! One
member of the London gold pool admitted it to me later. He, at
great expense, he came with a giant back-hoe and started digging,
for no other good reason, behind Building Four.
I interviewed the president of the condo association. And she
took me over, behind Building Four, and she says, "Look where
they were digging over here. It didn't make any sense! There's
nothing going on. Why were they digging?"
They were digging for a whole week, uh -- starting the day after
we *taped* the show! Before the damn show even went on the air,
they were already diggin' a big hole there -- see?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
But what they found out [laughs]... I brought a hydraulic expert
to look at the place. There's an artificial lake near that
development, *and*, like the Pyramids of thousands of years ago,
there's a *trick*, see? If you try to get to the gold, you get
drowned. This artificial lake will get ya. It's hooked up by a
special device there. 'Cause right across the road from the
Kingspoint Condominiums is this artificial lake. And so, if you
try to get at the gold, you need to know the trick, see?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The lake will suddenly drown you, underneath there! [laughs]
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, there's some kind of a mine out in Nova Scotia or somethin'
that's kind of the same way; that they discovered some mine...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I brought some of the leading hydraulic experts in the world to
look at the thing, and they agree with me. I'm the first one that
looked at the lake and says, "Hey. I'm not a hydraulic expert.
What's with this lake!?" [laughs] So they noticed that there's
some kind of a trap door underneath one of the laundry rooms in
one of the buildings.
Anyways... Hey! If I write a book about it, it'll be astounding,
I'm telling you.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! You ought to!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
A friend of mine contacted Oliver Stone, who knows me, and
they're thinkin' about makin' a movie about it. It, it's very
interesting.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. With Christian Henning, jr., O.K.? He's the godson and
nephew of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Did you hear that interview we did with the consul-general of
Italy?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! That went out. That went out, I sent that out. I'm workin'
on... Did you get the, I sent you some information.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, I got it. I didn't look it over. It just arrived in the
mail. Thank you, very much.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. I'll send ya some more.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
The point is that, Marcinkus is the key. They want... [*sotto
voce*] He's here, supposedly with diplomatic protection. The
Vatican is not Italy. And Italy is not the Vatican. The Vatican
is a separate sovereignty...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...within Italy. Do you see what I'm sayin'?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
And so, Italy wants him?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah. Italy wants him on a thing left over from Michele Sindona.
His son, Nino Sindona, has been an export-import agent in
Chicago. And... Well... The guy that traded on the markets for
Michele Sindona has been trying to "put the arm on" [i.e.,
pressure], on Andreuccetti. It's a long story, separate by
itself. Just take my word, at the moment, that we got a lot of
details about that.
Sindona is mentioned in detail in Luigi DiFonzo's book, Luigi
DiFonzo's book, *St. Peter's Banker*.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
You can read about Michele Sindona. He was the Pope's banker. And
he was murdered in an Italian jail, after being extradited from
the United States.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And so we have Christian Henning, jr., uh, and he
represented himself as being in business with Andreuccetti and
got a loan...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Falsely!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah... falsely, yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Illinois law requires a written partnership: there is no such
thing.
[...to be continued...]
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 6, 1995
On March 6, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
-- Brian Francis Redman, Editor-in-chief, Conspiracy Nation
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[...continued...]
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And but he got a loan, using Andreuccetti's property as
collateral?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Right. And *then*, two other guys, one a bankruptcy auctioneer,
bought the building in his own name -- not as an auctioneer, but
in his own name. And...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
That was Lieberman.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Wallace Lieberman and Robert Belavia, a known gangster.
Read the interview with Redmer.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! All right, well where is the interview with her? Do you
have that?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I sent it to you! It's... You got it already.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
You mean those court documents.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
You see there that her... She was part of the unit investigatin'
'em, and her higher-ups corruptly sped up the thing, to put him
away.
Lieberman was murdered... You see it there, right before...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Yeah. In Cicero. Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...in '91. Thereafter, all the land titles disappeared; you can't
find 'em on Chicago Title or where the trust was, with LaSalle
Bank.
You know what a land title is?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Uh, it just show who owns the property, right?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah. It disappeared!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
O.K.? You can't... When you go down there and inquire, they says,
"Oh, uh... 'glitch'. We can't find it anymore."
Hey. Notice what Redmer says: she said that her higher-ups in the
Regional Director's Office of the IRS *personally* stole the
property.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Do ya see the point!?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Uh it's a complex case, O.K.? And I'm tryin' to, you know, sort
it all out. And like I said...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
All right... Read the two-page story that I wrote about it, that
I sent you.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
"The Mysterious 50 Million Dollars". Read it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah, I did, you know? And it's, you know I...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
If you don't understand it, there's even skilled lawyers that
need a little help! [laughs]
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. I'm tryin' to sort it all out and get the picture here.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
This is a sophisticated scam!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Oh it's, I mean, the thing is just huge, you know? And it doesn't
just...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well Banco Lavoro is using the gold as collateral. That's number
one.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Nobody in Congress will mention Banco Lavoro, Chicago. Nobody!
Uh, what else? The $50 million is related to it, and that got
wound in with Clinton.
Clinton is "up the wall" because -- uh the scandal involving
Clinton also involves Ollie North and Bush, who are Republicans!
So [laughs]... there's a complication.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. And this Gierum confession: do you have a copy of that?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Uh, part of it was put in the court record. I'll have to find
that page and send it to ya.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. 'Cuz I'd like to get that out on the Internet if I can. And
your...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Every, almost everything I'm tellin' ya has already been in the
court record. We confronted the government and their response is
to try to get an injunction to shut us up so that we don't
interview anybody anymore!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
You know. And then there was that threat in the hallway, and so
on. I mean, somethin' about all this is bothering them. Do you
see what I'm saying?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
That's why, you know, like I say, I jumped ahead and... 'Cuz I'm
slowly typin' in these documents and gettin' 'em out there...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well... I'm workin'... I mean, you know, if there was an honest,
free press in America, I would speed up my work on a possible
book. I don't think it can be published, unless I could raise the
money for private publication. Who the Hell is gonna, among the
small number of corporations that run the book business, are
gonna commission a book on *this* subject? Come on!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
You know, you might try (I was thinkin') Feral House is a small
publisher, maybe would...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Where are they at?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Offhand I don't know. I could check on it. But you know, they've
done kind of work in this. And Thunder's [Mouth]...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
You can, you can see from the details I'm givin' ya that we've
got *tons* of information. Absolutely tons.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. Yeah.
And the thing is that, it should be documented and brought out
more. It might... Part of *my* hope in all this is that, you
know, *somebody* in the press -- you know, this is goin' out on
the Internet -- somebody in the press is gonna say, "Huh, there
might be a story here." You know?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah but we're going on the fifth year of our show, we have an
estimated 500,000 viewers on Monday night, and nobody that's a
TV media critic of any of the major papers here ever will mention
us, a *single* *word*!!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
And yet, if you were to talk to them -- the political editor of
the *Tribune* and all of 'em -- they *all* know about our show.
But they won't say a single word. We bother them. Why? Because,
you know, we interview, we investigate the federal reserve and
the *Tribune* company and stuff like that -- we *bug* them. So
we're invisible as far as they... They want us to be invisible
and never mentioned in their newspaper.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So why would you suspect that they would pick up on this and...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Well it was my *hope* -- O.K.? -- that that would become so...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
No.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Well, you know that it becomes *so* *obvious* you know? You've
got all this stuff...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Wait 'til you see what I sent you, that was in the *Tribune* and
never withdrawn! Why does the *Tribune* continue to run these
fraudulent stories, as if the bones were examined in a mine
shaft, of the Tsarist family, when after 50 years had passed,
they released documents from the British government that the Tsar
and his family were rescued!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It was published in *their* paper in 1970. I sent you a copy.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. You've also... You mentioned the Lincoln assassination.
This maybe is a change of subject. It's just somethin' I know a
little bit about: is, you know, that there was a higher plot
involved in that...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well read the book, *The Lincoln Conspiracy*.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
You know what? I actually, I did a synopsis of that book and I
sent it out on the Internet.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well some historians question them, but it's basically true. They
question 'em about a few things there.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I don't see, you know I haven't found *any* historical book that
tries to -- except *one* book, all right? There's one book that
tries to answer that.
I mean, there's other books by, like, Otto Eisenschiml or
whatever...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, I got all of them...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...preceded this book. And the one's that criticized *Lincoln
Conspiracy*...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
They didn't know what they're talkin' about! I, from what *I*
read. I mean, I only found one book...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
There's a woman that runs a thing in, wherever the Hell it is, in
Maryland -- Surratt's [Museum]...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
She criticizes *The Lincoln Conspiracy*. But they have a
financial interest. I mean, they sell tickets so you can go and
visit their museum, see? I ain't selling tickets to anything.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah. I mean, it's just, you know I bring that up because you had
mentioned that in some of your commentaries. And it's just, it's
a subject I know a little bit about, havin' looked into it. And
there's just *so* much suspicious circumstances surrounding that
assassination.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well read John Wilkes Booth's letter to a Washington, DC
newspaper, that was kept secret in the family that owned the
newspaper for 113 years. Read it. It's in that book.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Which book?
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
*The Lincoln Conspiracy*.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I don't remember that one! I...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Oh yeah, yeah! And the guys that surrounded Lincoln, many of 'em
were commodities speculators. And (I don't know how to put it to
you)... Read *Julius Caesar*, by Shakespeare. Who killed Julius
Caesar? *His* *closest* *friends*.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Why? They had some interest in opposition to their friend, so
they knocked him off. They all stabbed him to death. Read *Julius
Caesar*, by Shakespeare.
And likewise, Lincoln's friends had an interest to "croak" him.
For financial reasons. They had big investments in the commodity
markets in that day.
[...to be continued...]
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 6, 1995
On March 6, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
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SHERMAN SKOLNICK [continues]:
*And*, they accused Lincoln of treason 'cuz he wanted to "bind up
the wounds"...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...and go easy on the South, which would've caused cotton
production and such to resume -- these guys were *short* in the
cotton market.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
That's my take on it too: that he was gonna let the South back in
the union, and they wanted to go down and plunder the South, is
what a powerful motive for it would be.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, if you were a legal researcher you would know that, a whole
raft of cases from the time of the Appomatox surrender [and]
thereafter, in the U.S. Supreme Court, that shows the great
opposition to accepting the Constitutional rights of rebels.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Their rights were forfeit, even after the war!
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
There's a whole raft of cases that I could tell you about if you
were interested in that.
So I mean, the other angle we've been investigating for 20 years
is the fact that the Continental Bank, which was formed right
*before* the Civil War, together with the Board of Trade -- 1857
-- um... How could I put it to you? They handled the
assassination money. Let's put it to you that way.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. I've read the book, *The Lincoln Conspiracy*. There's also,
let's see...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Oh you gotta read it 10 times...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah [laughs].
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
You gotta be, you gotta be a historic buff...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...to understand this. If you don't understand it the first 10
times, that's O.K.
You gotta know finance. You gotta know commodities. You gotta be
able to check with experts. You gotta... before you can
understand it! [laughs] I wish Eisenschiml was still around. He
was a... He used to get on the television 30 years ago.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
There's another book, called *Mask for Treason*...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, I got that too. Very good.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
It mentions that the, in that book there, it mentions that the
military officer who cut the military telegraph cables on the
bridge where John Wilkes Booth escaped -- there were several
bridges goin' out of DC. And on the bridge that the conspirators
selected for him to go on, they cut the telegraph cables so he
could escape? *That* *person* became the founding president of
Western Union telegraph company.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. The way I understand it is, the telegraph went out but it
was at a central location -- which is actually more ominous, you
know? It wasn't so much a thing of...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Right. And the guy named Lafayette C. Baker...
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah!
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...who headed up what we now call the U.S. Secret Service, was
part of the plot. And likewise, the head of the U.S. Secret
Service in 1963, Rowley, was believed to be part of the plot
against JFK, 98 years later.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
All right, that's... I guess I'll just kind of let you go now,
O.K.? 'Cuz I...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, you're swamped with this. [laughs]
Uh, I'm planning a sizeable article for *Media Bypass* about the
Whitewater thing, and I'll send you... I'll keep you informed
about that.
Um, the thing that bugs 'em is this message we're running now.
They're, they go straight up the wall because we've got inside
information about the buying and selling of TV jobs that
absolutely... It's one of the great internal scandals of the
media. I mean, even you: You want to be a talking head on the
media?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
[laughs]
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I could tell ya... It doesn't matter. It will make your hair
blonde if it's not blonde now. And as long as you can *read*
what's on the teleprompter, you put up the price, and you become
a talking head.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
You know, I... One thing I wanted to...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Oh you think I'm lying! I used to teach at a radio broadcast
school. I know a lot.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Fine. I mean, this is all, you know, stuff that I'm... I'll tell
ya: I think what you say has *merit*, O.K.? I mean, I'm not...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
I have no reason to lie; why would I lie?
CONSPIRACY NATION:
No! I don't...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
...this past 37 years. If I lie, I got a lot to lose. Not
financially, but the *name* I have built up over 37 years. I, I
don't do any of this or say any of this because some uh, ratings
are gonna go up or a sponsor's gonna like me better. The main
thing I have is a good name.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah I, you know, like I say -- I'm not the type of person that's
a "true believer", O.K.? That is just gonna just turn off my mind
and just accept anything somebody says...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
No! I want you to ask questions. I don't want you to accept what
*I* say or what *anybody* says, just on the face of it.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
Yeah! That's, you know, like I say, I think what you say has got
a lot of merit, and I'm open-minded to lookin' into it further.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well just think of my background: our work has caused the largest
judicial bribery scandal in the history of the United States. So
*that* should be on the top of the list that I have no reason to
fake-up anything, you know?
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INTERVIEW WITH SHERMAN SKOLNICK -- MARCH 15, 1995
On March 15, 1995, I interviewed Mr. Sherman Skolnick of the
Citizens' Committee to Clean-up the Courts [CCCC] by telephone.
The following is my transcription of that interview. Note that in
this interview I neither necessarily agree nor disagree with
either all or some of the statements of Mr. Skolnick.
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CONSPIRACY NATION:
I've been readin' through some of this Tsar stuff, *The File on
the Tsar* by Anthony Summers, and, I gotta hand it to ya, it
really, to me it looks conclusive that there's been a cover-up of
some type.
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
One of the biggest cover-ups of the 20th century.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
I have a few questions here. There's um... O.K. My question is
regarding the educational system in this country. Because, even
today, you go to a high school and they're gonna be teachin' you
that "Oswald did it." And...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, that's because of the school textbook publishers, like
Scott-Foresman(sp?), which is in a northwest suburb of Chicago.
They're part of the establishment. They're tied in with the
banking interests, and uh, they speak for the establishment.
Would you want them to tell the truth about things? They're not
gonna tell the truth about what happened to the Tsar and his
family, what brought on Pearl Harbor, what the Dallas
assassination of JFK was about, or *any* of that. They've even
lied about what brought on the First World War! They've lied
about the sinking of the Lusitania and so on -- there's a book on
that by a fellow named uh, Simpson I think, that tells what the
Lusitania was really about. [It] was carrying munitions and so
on. And the British navy withdrew all protection and allowed the
Lusitania to be at the mercy of German submarines.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. But my question is more...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
So in other words, the educational system, from top to bottom,
with their textbooks and everything there, lied. And the
teachers... Well some teachers depart from their textbooks, but
generally not. They're criticized if they depart from the
curriculum.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. But my view on this is that it would be more of a top-down
thing; that you've got, at the highest level you've got so-called
"experts" who *do* know a lot about this sort of thing, but that
they're more or less paid to lie about it. And because they're
the authorities, it goes top-down, and...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Yeah, that's true. But it goes through the financial connections
of the textbook publishers and, uh... For example, a person is
hard-put to find, in the United States, books... like *British*
school books on U.S. history telling *their* viewpoint of what
brought on the American Revolutionary War. I've been looking all
these years; you can't find it anywhere. The nearest to it was
some book that came out a few years ago, written about some of
those that fled the colonies to England, and *their* viewpoints.
In other words, I wanted a balanced account of things. And you
don't get it from the run-of-the-mill books -- whether textbooks
or whatever.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
O.K. There's a book called *Universities and the Capitalist
State* by Clyde Barrow [University of Wisconsin Press at Madison]
that, along these lines, it kind of traces the encroachment of
the government into the university system; where, say, in the
last century, universities were a lot more autonomous. But then
the government, through, say, the Carnegie...
SHERMAN SKOLNICK:
Well, the best book on this subject is by James Ridgeway, called
*The Closed Corporation*. It came out of the '60s. It's as
accurate as if it was published yesterday. It tells about all
these universities and their tie-in to corporate interests. So
that supports what you're saying.
CONSPIRACY NATION:
So, in other words, you would say it's just kind of a scam,
basically. I mean, there may be honest researchers